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The National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS) today said that one of the three critically wounded jet crash victims from Milestone School and College is now on life support at the facility, where 33 patients, mostly students, are still being treated.
“A total of 33 crash survivors, including 27 children, are now undergoing treatment here,” NIBPS Director Professor Dr Mohammad Nasir Uddin told a news briefing at the institute, BSS reports.
He said three critically wounded crash victims were being treated at the NIBPS Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and “one is now on life support system”.
Apart from the four, the NIBPS said nine jet crash victims being treated there were categorized as “severely” wounded patients, while the rest were receiving treatments at different wards with burn wounds.
The director of the facility said NIBPSD was expecting to discharge several more crash victims by this week, while so far four wounded were released after treatment.
Uddin said NIBPS deviated from an earlier plan to release three victims today, reconsidering their condition and decided to discharge them after another dressing.
The NIBPS chief said some of the expert physicians from Singapore, China and India had already left Bangladesh and some others were preparing to leave soon.
According to the latest information provided by the Health and Family Welfare Ministry, 34 people, mostly students, have died so far in the Milestone jet crash on July 21.