{"id":6838,"date":"2026-09-17T15:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=6838"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:32:25","slug":"only-newborn-survivor-of-islamabad-hospital-fire-dies-under-treatment-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=6838","title":{"rendered":"Only newborn survivor of Islamabad hospital fire dies under treatment \u2014 official"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The fire broke out on Aug. 26 at the Mother and Child <a href=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=6745\" title=\"Your health insurance bills are about to go up\">Health<\/a> nursery, where 15 newborns were being treated in a unit designed for 10<\/li>\n<li>Islamabad police have launched criminal proceedings against nine hospital officials in connection with the blaze, health minister says<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: The only newborn to survive last month\u2019s deadly fire at a <a href=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=6711\" title=\"Healthier school dinners as government delivers major reforms\">government<\/a> hospital in Islamabad has died while being under treatment, a health official confirmed on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 26 fire broke out at the Mother and Child Health nursery of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, or PIMS, where 15 medically dependent newborns were being treated in a unit designed for 10. Fourteen died and one survived<\/p>\n<p>A nurse, Razia Noreen, had managed to rescue one newborn baby, who had been receiving treatment at PIMS, according to local media reports. The infant was on a ventilator and passed away late last night<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only surviving child of PIMS nursery blaze has passed away,\u201d Dr. Aneza Jalil, a spokesperson for the hospital, told Arab News on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>A final inquiry report, issued on Tuesday, identified an electrical supply cable of an air-conditioning unit as the most probable point of ignition, saying localized electrical heating likely damaged its insulation and ignited nearby combustible material<\/p>\n<p>But the inquiry panel said PIMS had been warned repeatedly about wider fire-safety deficiencies, including after a July 6 fire at its nursing hostel exposed problems with smoke detection, alarms, electrical inspections, evacuation, firefighting equipment and emergency planning<\/p>\n<p>Those warnings were not turned into a comprehensive, time-bound and independently verified corrective <a href=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=6718\" title=\"Free family wellness program comes to Cortez in June\">program<\/a> before the nursery blaze, it said<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, Islamabad police launched criminal proceedings against nine hospital officials in connection with the blaze, Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal told Arab News on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation team and the committee have really gone through a detailed investigation and out of all the evidence, they have found guilty definitely. And the criminal proceeding has been started,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not the matter of, you know, finding the facts anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister said they have taken all short-term safety measures, including the installation of fire safety equipment, at PIMS since the incident<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever recommendation they had made in preliminary report, we have done 100 percent compliance on that,\u201d he said, adding that the final detailed report contained 34 instructions to ensure patient safety at public hospitals<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf those 34, you know, recommendations, there are some actions needed to be taken immediately and some are, you know, a bit long-term, you know, reforms and structural changes and all. So, we are working on every recommendation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The only newborn to survive last month\u2019s deadly fire at a government hospital in Islamabad has died while being under treatment, a health official confirmed on Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,1244,1443,876,1676],"class_list":["post-6838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-parenting","tag-hospital","tag-islamabad","tag-newborn","tag-only","tag-survivor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6839,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions\/6839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}