BT/0231

ONE WEEK ON SEVEN LIVES STILL IN DANGER

One week on, seven lives are still in danger
28 DEAD
7 CRITICAL
1 SERIOUSLY ILL
By Kathryn Torney

SEVEN people, including two children, remain in a critical condition in hospital, over a week after the Omagh bombing.
A 13-month-old baby girl was discharged from the Royal Victoria Hospital yesterday but 65 people remain in hospitals throughout the province today.
Twenty-six patients were still receiving treatment in the Royal today.
Seven were in a critical condition, including two children, and the rest range from satisfactory to very ill.
Only three patients, two female and one male, were still being treated in Tyrone County Hospital today.
They were all said to be "comfortable".
In Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital 13 patients, including six children, were in a stable condition and two others were described as "ill".
In the South Tyrone Hospital five women remain in a stable condition.
In the Erne Hospital, a hospital spokesman said four females and two males were comfortable.
A 73-year-old woman was seriously ill but stable in Belfast City Hospital and a 21-year-old woman was in a stable condition.
Two children were "comfortable" in the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald today.
One adult was said to be in a serious condition and five were "satisfactory".

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Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH

Ref: BT/0231

Published Date: 24-Aug-98

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