Pakistan will award nurse for saving the sole newborn survivor of a hospital nursery fire
Women leave the Mother and Child Health ward at a hospital, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/M. Yousaf)
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani nurse who rescued the sole surviving newborn from a hospital nursery fire that killed 14 other infants will receive one of the country’s most prestigious civil awards.
Fire engulfed Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, a major government hospital in Islamabad, on Wednesday. A 51-second segment of CCTV footage, widely circulated online, captured Razia Noreen running into the burning nursery and emerging seconds later with the newborn in her arms. She tired to go back in, but couldn’t because of the flames and thick smoke.
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