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Iraq health minister resigns over hospital fire that killed 80 people

Iraq’s Health Minister Hassan al-Tamimi stepped down on Tuesday over a fire from an exploding oxygen tank at a Baghdad COVID-19 hospital last month that killed more than 80 people, the government announced in a statement.
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s government likewise directed the dismissal of the director of the Ibn Khatib hospital and other senior hospital officials.

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