Ten-year-old twin sisters, Sarinah Jahan Sayra and Saibah Jahan Sayma, who were injured in a training aircraft crash at Milestone School and College in the city earlier, have returned home after treatment at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
The institute bid farewell to the two sisters at the Director’s office of the institute on Wednesday morning, said a press release of the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing on Wednesday afternoon.
So far, 33 burn victims from the aircraft crash have returned home after treatment, it said.
On the occasion, Director of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery Professor Mohammad Nasir Uddin said, “A total of 57 people injured in the Milestone School plane crash received treatment here.
Among them, 20 died during treatment, one was referred to a mental hospital for trauma management and three are still under treatment but out of danger.”
Sayra suffered 30 per cent burns and Sayma sustained 15 per cent, he said.
“Our doctors, nurses, and other staff have provided dedicated care to every burn patient,” Professor Nasir said, adding, “The government has extended its full co-operation to us in ensuring proper treatment.”
The hospital authorities are continuing to stay in touch with the discharged patients and providing them with follow-up care, he said.
Professor Nasir expressed gratitude to foreign doctors including those from Singapore, India, China and the United Kingdom for their support in treating the victims.
The parents of the girls, Yasin Majumder and Aklima Akter, expressed their sincere thanks to the hospital authorities and the interim government.
On 21 July, a Bangladesh Air Force training fighter aircraft crashed into a two-storey building of Milestone School and College in the city’s Uttara area, killing 36 people and injuring 124 others. The investigation committee later identified pilot error as the cause of the crash.
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