Fire at Pakistan hospital nursery kills 14 newborns in AC unit explosion

At least 14 newborns died in the hospital nursery fire, with only one infant rescued from the facility.

In the early hours of a Wednesday morning in Islamabad, a mechanical failure inside a hospital nursery transformed a place of new beginnings into a site of profound loss. An air-conditioning compressor exploded at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, igniting a fire that killed 14 of the 15 newborns present in the gynecology ward. The tragedy, arriving without warning to families who had entrusted their most fragile lives to institutional care, has prompted Pakistan's Prime Minister to call for an immediate investigation — raising enduring questions about what obligations a society holds to

Fire at Pakistan hospital nursery kills 14 newborns in AC unit explosion

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