Just one toddler rescued from the neonatal facility the place the fireplace broke out, in Pakistan’s capital.
Printed On 26 Aug 2026
A minimum of 14 new child kids have been killed in a hearth that broke out within the nursery of a government-run hospital in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stated, as he ordered an investigation.
The fireplace broke out on Wednesday on the third ground of the Mom and Little one Centre at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital, based on media studies.
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Native broadcaster Geo TV, quoting hospital sources, put the demise toll at 15.
It stated the blaze, which started shortly earlier than 7am native time (02:00 GMT), has now been extinguished. Just one toddler was rescued, it added.
In a press release on X, Sharif provided his “deepest condolences to the bereaved households” and directed authorities to conduct “an instantaneous investigation”.
He promised that these accountable would face the “strictest motion”.
Geo TV cited rescue sources as saying that the fireplace was possible brought on by a brief circuit in a malfunctioning air-con unit.
Constructing fires are frequent in Pakistan, the place security rules and constructing codes are routinely ignored or poorly enforced. In January, a minimum of 65 individuals died when a large hearth swept by means of a crowded procuring complicated within the southern port metropolis of Karachi.
Wednesday’s blaze is likely one of the deadliest hospital fires in Pakistan’s historical past. Whereas the federal government offers subsidised medical remedy by means of public hospitals, the state sector stays severely underfunded, mismanaged and overcrowded.
