{"id":242486,"date":"2024-06-19T00:44:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=242486"},"modified":"2024-06-19T00:44:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T19:14:52","slug":"a-fire-at-a-hospital-in-irans-north-kills-9-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/a-fire-at-a-hospital-in-irans-north-kills-9-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"A fire at a hospital  in Iran\u2019s north  kills 9 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TEHRAN, Iran, 18 Jun: A fire broke out at a hospital in Iran\u2019s north, killing nine patients, state media reported Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe blaze started at 1:30 local time (2200GMT) at Qaem Hospital in the city of Rasht, some 330 kilometers (about 205 miles) northwest of the capital Tehran, state TV said, leaving six women and three men dead.<br \/>\nChief of the city fire department, Shahram Momeni, said on state TV that an electric short circuit in the basement \u2014 which harbors the intensive care unit \u2014 malfunctioned, causing the fire.<br \/>\nMomeni said emergency workers rescued more than 140 people, patients and hospital staff, after being trapped because of the smoke, and that 120 of them were hospitalized in other medical facilities. He added that an investigation has been ordered.<br \/>\nA video posted online appeared to show smoke billowing from the hospital in the middle of the night.<br \/>\nIranian media occasionally report on fires in hospitals and clinics that are mainly blamed on technical issues.<br \/>\nIn 2020, an explosion from a gas leak in a medical clinic in northern Tehran killed 19 people. AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Iran, 18 Jun: A fire broke out at a hospital in Iran\u2019s north, killing nine patients, state media reported Tuesday. The blaze started at 1:30 local time (2200GMT) at Qaem Hospital in the city of Rasht, some 330 kilometers (about 205 miles) northwest of the capital Tehran, state TV said, leaving six women and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}