10:33 PM
Wednesday 01 February 2023
Books – Mahmoud Al-Shorbaji and Ahmed Adel:
A state of great sadness dominated the Al-Mataria area, following the Al-Nour Al-Mohammadi Hospital fire accident, which resulted in the death of 3 people and the injury of 32 others.
The fire engines, which rushed to the site of the fire following the flames and fumes rose to the sky, fought the fire for at least an hour until they succeeded in extinguishing it.
The security services are conducting extensive investigations and discussions with eyewitnesses and hospital staff to fully reveal the causes and circumstances of the fire.
One of the eyewitnesses told “Masrawy” that at exactly two thirty in the followingnoon, an explosion was heard inside the hospital, without knowing the cause of the fire, but some suggested that it might have been caused by an electrical short circuit or an oxygen cylinder.
She added that the site of the fire consisted of 3 buildings, a mosque, a charitable hospital, and an orphanage for children who reside in the home and are provided with full care, adding that the fire losses are related to the hospital only.
She indicated that the children were transferred from the home to another building belonging to the charity, stressing that all the children are in good condition and that no one was injured.
She pointed to the intervention of the people of the area to put out the fire immediately following it broke out and until the arrival of the Civil Protection Forces, who arrived at the site of the fire following being informed directly.
And the Ministry of Health and Population announced that 3 people were killed and 32 others injured as a result of the fire that broke out in the radiology department inside a hospital belonging to a non-governmental organization in Al-Mataria, Cairo Governorate.
Today, Al-Mataria Hospital received 11 injured people, as a result of a fire that broke out inside Al-Nour Al-Mohammadi Hospital in Al-Mataria.
“Masrawy” obtained the names of the injured, and they are: Ibrahim Abdel Wahed Attoh, 30 years old, Huwaida Ahmed Zekrallah, 20 years old, Dalia Abdullah Abdel Malek, 37 years old, Jouda Tamer, 25 years old, Mustafa Mohamed, 43 years old, Buthaina Ahmed, 62 years old, Ahmed Saeed, 28 years old. Faten Ibrahim, 55 years old, Kamila Ahmed, 42 years old, Gouda Zakaria, 24 years old, and Fathia Ibrahim, 60 years old.
Preliminary investigations into the Al-Nour Al-Mohammadi Charitable Hospital fire in Al-Mataria indicated that 3 people working inside the hospital’s pharmacy were killed as a result of suffocation following the fire, and the bodies were transferred to the morgue.
The Civil Protection Operations Room received notification of a fire on the ground floor of Al-Nour Al-Mohammadi Hospital in Al-Masala area in Al-Mataria district.
The civil forces moved, fire trucks were dispatched, and a security cordon was imposed, and the forces succeeded in controlling the fire and preventing its spread to the rest of the hospital departments.
