{"id":23500,"date":"2026-08-28T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23500"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:00:11","slug":"government-announces-rs5-million-compensation-for-each-family-of-14-newborns-killed-in-pims-nursery-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23500","title":{"rendered":"Government announces Rs5 million compensation for each family of 14 newborns killed in PIMS nursery fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad: The federal government has announced compensation of Rs5 million for each family that lost a newborn child in the devastating fire at the PIMS hospital nursery in Islamabad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to an official statement issued by the federal government, it stands with the affected families in their grief and will provide them with all possible support and assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The government said the family of each child who died in the PIMS tragedy would receive Rs5 million in financial compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The statement stressed that financial compensation could never replace a human life, adding that the assistance was intended to help ease some of the difficulties faced by the grieving families.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government also reiterated its commitment to extending all possible assistance and support to the affected families during this difficult period.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes a day after a fire broke out in the nursery at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze claimed the lives of 14 newborn babies, while one child was rescued from the nursery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government has announced compensation of Rs5 million for each family that lost a newborn child in the devastating fire at the PIMS hospital nursery in Islamabad. According to an official statement issued by the federal government, it stands with the affected families in their grief and will provide them with all possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[13474,3550,335,85,13472,13468,13475,1806,13466,13473],"class_list":["post-23500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-affected-families","tag-compensation","tag-federal-government","tag-islamabad","tag-newborn-babies","tag-nursery-fire","tag-pims-fire","tag-pims-hospital","tag-pims-tragedy","tag-rs5-million"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23502,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23500\/revisions\/23502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}