Dubai: Jazan General Hospital where 25 people were killed and 123 were injured in a massive fire had reportedly failed three times to pass the test that “awards certificates of accreditation to healthcare institutions that demonstrate standards compliance as recognized by assessment, follow-up visits, and monitored per-formance by accredited surveyors.”
The hospital in southern Saudi Arabia has not able to pass the accreditation by the Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions (CBAHI) since 2013 while all sections failed to reach the required standards, Saudi news site Sabq reported on Saturday.
Sources told Sabq that the failures could explain the terrible incident and the high toll of victims were killed or injured after the fire broke out early on Thursday.
Several witnesses reported that emergency doors were closed and people were unable to escape through them. One account said that a nurse jumped from the fourth floor after her rom was engulfed in fire.
Sabq said that the hospital scored a dismal 16 per cent in the building safety test. It fared almost poorly in nursing, blood transfusion and safety of medicines, the news site added.
According to the sources, only King Fahad Central Hospital achieved a good score in the tests by CBAHI car-ried out in the region.
CBAHI has no authority to shut down hospital.
The claims by Sabq were not corroborated by other sources, but an investigation into the incident had been ordered by Jazan Governor Prince Mohammad Bin Nasser Bin Abdul Aziz.
Online users said that all those found guilty of negligence should be not only dismissed but also put on trial for causing the death of 25 people.
