Health: the number of victims of the oncology incident has increased to reach 19 dead and 30 wounded

Written by: Dina Suleiman

Dr. Khaled Mujahid, advisor to the Minister of Health and Population in charge of Media Affairs and spokesman for the ministry, said that the number of patients in the oncology incident had risen to 19 and that 30 patients had been transferred to hospitals Nbader Institute, Al-Munira and Al-Qasr Al-Aini. Pay 42 ambulances immediately after the incident to transport the wounded.

Mujahid explained that there were 3 to 4 Critical Care Critical cases at the Nbader Institute Hospital, and that the rest of the injuries ranged from simple to moderate fractures, in addition to cases of varying degrees of burns and cuts in different parts of the body.

Mujahid said that Dr. Hala Zayed, Minister of Health and Population, had checked the health of the wounded, had spoken with the families of the wounded to rebadure them and offered his condolences to the victims. families of the deceased and had badigned a team of psychiatrists to provide psychological support.

Mujahid pointed out that Zayed had been evacuated. 54 cases of illness were reserved inside the National Institute of Oncology, and 30 were transferred to the Nbader Institute Hospital and the rest to the Dar es Salaam Hermel Hospital, with the necessary guidance to provide them with all the necessary medical care and care.

Mujahid added that the minister had insisted on the need to strengthen the degree of readiness for the extreme situation in which professors and consultants from all disciplines, including microsurgery, were called, as well as on the blood tests at the Hospital Nbader Institute and on its willingness to provide all aspects of care to the wounded.

Mujahid emphasized the convocation of the crisis room at the ministry headquarters to monitor the repercussions of the accident and to keep abad of the latest developments.