PIMS Reforms Pakistan: What the Inquiry Report Found and What Comes Next

Firefighters and hospital staff outside PIMS Mother and Child Health ward after the nursery fire

More than three weeks after a fire killed 14 newborns at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Pakistan now has a full picture of what went wrong. A 43-page inquiry report has laid out the causes, the failures and a long list of PIMS reforms the government has been ordered to carry out, starting with a strict three-month deadline for the most urgent fixes. This piece walks through what the PIMS inquiry actually found, why the government is treating this as a wider health-sector problem rather than a one-hospital issue,…

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