Milestone tragedy: 13 among 56 hospitalised are in ICU
A total of 56 individuals, injured in the explosion and fire caused by the crash of a Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet at Milestone School and College's Diabari campus, are currently undergoing treatment at various hospitals in Dhaka, and 13 of them are in Intensive Care Units (ICUs).
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) shared the numbers in an update issued at 1pm today (24 July).
According to the update, eight patients were in the ICU at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS), and six were in the ICU at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH). Among the ICU patients, nine were children.
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However, around 1:52pm, one of the ICU patients -- Mahtab, 15 -- succumbed to 85% burn injuries that he had sustained in the massive fire that followed the crash at the primary section building of the institute on 21 July.
In a press briefing on Wednesday, NIBPS Director Dr Md Nasir Uddin said that patients are being treated under three categories: critical, severe, and intermediate.
"Burn patients' conditions can change suddenly for better or worse. We are hopeful that those in the intermediate group will recover quickly," he said. Patients are being assessed every 12 hours.
So far, 30 people have died in this tragic incident, according to the DGHS.
