Staff Reporter:
The physicians have been attaching priority to treating mental health issues alongside the physical inju-ries of the burn victims in the BAF training jet crash on Milestone School and College at Uttara in Dha-ka City.
“We are attaching priority to treating the mental health issues of the burn victims alongside their physi-cal injuries in the Burn Institute,” National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS) Director Pro-fessor Dr Mohammad Nasir Uddin told a news briefing at the institute yesterday afternoon.
He said they have taken the matter seriously and they are making regular contacts with the health adviser and the health ministry.
Dr Nasir Uddin said one of three critically wounded jet crash victims was now on the life support at the facility, where 33 patients, mostly students, were still being treated.
“A total of 33 crash survivors, including 27 children, are now undergoing treatment here. Three of them in critical condition are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the institute,” he said.
Nine of them are comparatively less critical and 19 others are receiving treatment at different beds with burn wounds, he added.
The director of the facility said NIBPS was expecting to discharge several more crash victims by this week, while so far four wounded were released after treatment.
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 of July 21.
