Milestone tragedy: 2 more victims discharged from burn institute
24 burn victims currently undergoing treatment, including 2 in critical condition
Two more burn victims in the Milestone jet crash at Uttara in the capital were discharged today from the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS).
"Two more burn victims, out of 26, undergoing treatment at the burn institute were released today," Resident Surgeon Dr Shawon Bin Rahman of the NIBPS told BSS today over phone.
Dr Shawon said with the release of two more patients they have already discharged 14 burn survivors from the burn institute.
The names of the discharged victims are Yusha, 9, a student of the Milestone School and College and its teacher Sumaiya Lorin, 40, he added.
"As many as 24 burn victims in the jet crash are now undergoing treatment at the burn institute. The condition of two patients is still critical and they are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) while one of them is on life support," Dr Shawon further said.
Of the 24 patients now undergoing treatment at the burn institute, 22 are children -- 15 are girls and 8 are boys -- and two females are adults while seven of them have inhalation injuries and five have over 30 percent burn injuries, he continued.
Eighteen of the injured are now receiving treatment at different wards of the burn institute.
The physician said a total of 215 small and large operations on the fire victims have so far been conducted.
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A total of 18 victims have succumbed to their burn injuries in the institute while one died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).
Earlier on July 21, a fighter jet of the Bangladesh Air Force slammed into a two-storey building of the Milestone School and College due to mechanical fault minutes after taking off around 1pm, killing 33, so far, Health and Family Welfare Ministry sources confirmed.
Pilot of the fighter jet Flight Lieutenant Towkir Islam also died in the crash.
