BT/0087

TWO TAKEN OFF CRITICAL LIST

Two Taken Off the Critical List

TWO people injured in the Omagh bombing have been taken on hospital "critical" lists.
A 75-year-old woman is now ill but stable in Belfast City Hospital and a woman in the Royal Victoria Hospital has also improved.
Seven people have been released from hospital and two were transferred home to a hospital in Spain
And a total of 92 people are still being treated in hospitals.
Due to transfers from other hospitals, the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast is now caring for a total of 25 patients aged between 13 months and 68 years.
Seven people are in a critical condition, including two children.
The condition of the remaining two children, five men and 11 women ranges from seriously ill to stable.
Sixteen people are still being treated at the Erne Hospital. They are all said to be "quite stable".
One patient remains very seriously ill in Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital.
Four people are seriously ill. two have been described as "ill" and 12 are stable.
Only two patients remain in Belfast City Hospital.
A 21-year-old woman had surgery yesterday and is now said to 'be "stable" in intensive care and a 75-year-old woman is "ill but stable".
Sixteen people remain at Tyrone County Hospital. Their conditions were described as "comfortable and progressing".
The South Tyrone Hospital is caring for seven people today - They are "ill but stable".
In the Ulster Hospital seven patients, including one child, are in a stable condition.

TERROR TOLL
28 DEAD
92 IN HOSPITAL
7 CRITICAL
1VERY SERIOUSLY ILL

Further Information

Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH

Ref: BT/0087

Published Date: 19-Aug-98

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