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02:29 p. M.
Thursday 24 December 2020
Alexandria – Mohamed Amer:
The Alexandria police forces detained those responsible for the addiction treatment clinic in Al-Ajami neighborhood, in compliance with the arrest and summons issued by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Today, Thursday, the defendants are before the Dakhila Prosecutor’s Office to be investigated, in the context of a fire in the sanatorium, which resulted in the death of 6 patients, the injury of another and the survival of another 39.
Councilor Mahmoud Zaghloul, head of the Dakhilah Public Prosecutor’s Office, ordered the medical examiner to be appointed to carry out an autopsy on the bodies of deceased patients, explain the cause of death and authorize their subsequent burial.
The decisions of the Prosecutor’s Office included the summons of officials from the Department of Free Treatment of the Directorate of Health Affairs of Alexandria to find out whether or not there are licenses to practice the treatment issued to the health establishment and to what extent the safety requirements are met labor and industrial.
The Prosecutor’s Office issued a decision to expedite the report of the forensic experts, know the causes of the fire and determine its beginning and end, and expedite the investigations of the investigation into the incident.
Investigations revealed that the clinic is unlicensed and violates all occupational health, safety and medical requirements, and performs its work in violation of the law, and is located in a residential block in the Agami area, and there is no sign on behalf of the clinic, and is run by a recovering addiction.
Last night, the Dekheila Police Department received a report from the Emergency Police Department stating that a fire broke out in Villa No. 27, 13th Street, opposite Al-Hanafiya Street, in the Bitash area of the Al neighborhood. -Ajami.
The examination revealed that the villa consists of two floors and a “roof” and is used as a sanatorium for psychological treatment and addiction, and there are 45 people in it, while the fire caused the death of 6 patients and the injury of another.
The inspection of the Prosecutor’s Office of the village revealed the death of the 6 patients by asphyxia by smoke while they were inside the rooms designated for them in the clinic, and their lack of exit due to the fact that all the doors were tightly closed.
A forensic investigation team continues its efforts to discover the circumstances of the fire and present its perpetrators to the prosecution if it was the result of an active act, but in the event that it occurred as a result of a short circuit, the workers and the owner of the sanatorium will be taken to the prosecution for negligence.
A report on the incident was issued at the Dekheila Police Department, and the presentation is sent to the Prosecutor’s Office for investigation.
