KARACHI, Oct 21: Another 15 earthquake survivors evacuated with injuries from different parts of the country were admitted to three government hospitals, including the National Institute of Child Health (NICH), on Friday.
At the NICH, two quake affected children were brought for the first time, while the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) and Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) received six patients each.
Giving details of the patients shifted to the NICH, its director Dr Afroze Sherali said a seven-year old boy Majid, who was recovered from the debris of his school in Talgram, Muzaffarabad, after four days, came to her centre along with her aunty. He lost her mother and other relatives who lived in a house which collapsed due to earthquake, while his father is alive.
Majid, with no limb fractures, has been admitted to NICH for severe injuries of left arm’s soft tissues, which needed critical examinations and treatment, said the director.
One Farishta, 4, has been admitted for treatment of wound that she got in the left side of her abdomen, while playing outside her house in Battagram, Mansehra on the earthquake morning. The patient also lost a sister due to the calamity.
Dr Kaleem Butt, Medical Superintendent of CHK, said that the hospital received six more survivors, including three women, from quake hit areas on Friday.
Hafiza Bibi, 19, was brought by her husband, a pesh-imam of a mosque in New Karachi, from Muzaffarabad. She has injuries in her knee joints. A three-year-old Manza, with wounded left shoulder joints also came from Muzaffarabad.
Fahad Iqbal, 12, who came from Neelam Valley, with right tibia fracture, has been admitted to the Orthopaedic ward. One Muhammad Yousuf, 35, has also been shifted from Neelam valley for injuries on his back.
Shakeel Gul, 10, with superficial injury from Neelam Valley, Hanifa, 55, from Muzaffarabad, with fracture of pelvic bone and fractures of spinal chord, and a 10-year-old Ali Asghar Shah belonging to Balakot were also shifted to CHK for treatment. Ali Asghar had come to the city by air on Wednesday and was admitted to a private hospital. Lately he was operated upon by neurosurgeons at CHK.