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HYDERABAD: One thing that is lost sight of in recent July 22 Akbari mosque transformer tragedy is ad-hoc management of entire burns ward by untrained staff in Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) of Hyderabad.
The ward’s doctors and staff hardly manage burn patients with 20pc or above burn wounds. And that was why patients with over 25pc burn wounds of total body surface area (TBSA) are instantly advised to leave for Karachi.
Information obtained by Dawn revealed that all critically injured were referred to Karachi in the recent two tragedies in which two children and a young man died as a result of June 18 fire in a transformer in Islamabad Mohalla and then seven persons, including two children, breathed their last in Karachi after July 22 Akbari mosque transformer blast.
Funeral prayers being offered for the victims at Hyderabad’s Akbari ground on Friday. Umair Ali
HYDERABAD: Five people were killed and 13 others injured when a blast took place in a recently repaired pole-mounted transformer (PMT) of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) and it spilled burning oil onto people in Latifabad Unit-8 on Thursday, the second day of Eidul Azha, officials said on Friday.
It is the second such incident in the city in a short span of a month in which Hesco’s PMT spilled burning oil onto people.
The fresh incident took place on Thursday evening near Akbari mosque Latifabad when Hesco staff was attempting to energise the transformer after getting it repaired.
At least five killed in transformer blast
18 others injured in second HESCO-related explosion in two months
HYDERABAD:
Occurring as a successive reminder of the dangerously fragile and hazardous transmission system of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO), a blast in a pole-mounted transformer (PMT) in Hyderabad on Thursday claimed five lives.
Some 18 other persons were injured with fatal burn wounds in the explosion, which was accompanied by the spilling of hot oil from the transformer.
The incident occurred in Latifabad Unit 8 in near Akbari ground.
The injured patients were shifted to the burns ward at Liaquat University Hospital in Hyderabad. However, due to the dearth of facilities, 17 of the injured persons were referred to Karachi.
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