{"id":750121,"date":"2026-08-26T08:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750121\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:28:10","slug":"pakistan-pims-live-updates-after-fire-breaks-out-at-maternity-ward-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750121\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan PIMS: Live updates after fire breaks out at maternity ward in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘That building had no fire security’: Father of victim criticises safety measurespublished at 09:06 BST<\/p>\n

09:06 BST<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Reuters<\/p>\n

A father of a victim has criticised the safety measures in place at the hospital. <\/p>\n

Speaking to the Reuters news agency the man, who did not provide his name, says: “I wasn\u2019t even able to see my daughter, but the condition of the ward is bad. <\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve been going there for eight days, the situation was absurd.”<\/p>\n

He adds: “That building had no fire security, no proper exits. All doors were closed, only one door was for us to visit our children. They kept the other doors locked because they feared we would come to see our children too often.”<\/p>\n

Earlier, the hospital’s executive director told the BBC the door to the maternity ward was not locked<\/a>, but that it was manned, citing the need to protect against the possibility of babies being stolen. <\/p>\n

Islamabad’s District Magistrate has formed a fact-finding committee to investigate the fire, and the terms of reference say it will assess whether adequate and functional fire-safety measures were in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘That building had no fire security’: Father of victim criticises safety measurespublished at 09:06 BST 09:06 BST Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-750121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}