55 STILL IN HOSPITAL WITH BOMB INJURIES
55 STILL IN HOSPITAL WITH BOMB INJURIES
THE number of people injured and still in hospital in the aftermath of the horrendous bomb attack on Omagh dropped to 55 this week.
Only 10 of the patients are male, five of them in Altnagelvin, Londonderry, and five in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.
Four of those being cared for in Altnagelvin are boys, while among the eight female patients are two young girls.
Three of the 20 people still in the Royal, where four are children, remain on the critical list, two women and a man. Injuries being treated there range from compound fractures to burns.
Every one of the 20, in the age range nine to 68, is also suffering from shrapnel injuries, and two have serious eye injuries.
Among those in the Belfast hospital is nine-year-old Stephen Coyle, from Strabane, whose father, Francis, described the horrors of the bombing to the world's press from his Tyrone County Hospital bed on Thursday last.
Mr. Coyle, of Lisnafin Park, has since been discharged, but Omagh woman, Sharon Haughey, who also spoke to the media - from Ward 5A at the 'County' - is one of the many women and children still detained.
The 25-year-old mother of two from Strathroy, is among just three 'bomb' patients remaining in the Omagh hospital. All are said by the authorities to be stable.
In the neighbouring Erne Hospital in Enniskillen all six patients were said yesterday (Wednesday) to be in a stable condition, too, although one is in intensive care.
There are two adult females receiving treatment in South Tyrone Hospital, Dungannon, although both are said to be stable, and, in the City Hospital, a 75-year-old woman is said to be seriously ill, but stable, and a 21-year-old woman ill, but comfortable.
Two children are among the Ulster Hospital's eight female patients. Both are said to be comfortable, but one of the six women is seriously ill. The other five are in a satisfactory condition.
The total extent of the carnage wreaked by the terrorists in terms of human suffering was also revealed on Monday when Sperrin Lakeland Health and Social Care Trust disclosed details of the number of attendances at accident and emergency units in the wake of the bomb, as opposed to hospital admissions.
No fewer than 373 attendances were recorded in the period to August 19, 37 of them in the four days after the bombing. There were 244 at Tyrone County Hospital, 73 at the Erne, 30 at Altnagelvin, and 26 at South Tyrone.
The final number of admissions in the period to August 19, inclusive of transfers, were 175, 69 of them to Tyrone County Hospital, 37 to the Erne, 25 to Altnagelvin, 11 to South Tyrone, 27 to RVH, five to the Ulster and one to the City.
THE number of people injured and still in hospital in the aftermath of the horrendous bomb attack on Omagh dropped to 55 this week.
Only 10 of the patients are male, five of them in Altnagelvin, Londonderry, and five in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.
Four of those being cared for in Altnagelvin are boys, while among the eight female patients are two young girls.
Three of the 20 people still in the Royal, where four are children, remain on the critical list, two women and a man. Injuries being treated there range from compound fractures to burns.
Every one of the 20, in the age range nine to 68, is also suffering from shrapnel injuries, and two have serious eye injuries.
Among those in the Belfast hospital is nine-year-old Stephen Coyle, from Strabane, whose father, Francis, described the horrors of the bombing to the world's press from his Tyrone County Hospital bed on Thursday last.
Mr. Coyle, of Lisnafin Park, has since been discharged, but Omagh woman, Sharon Haughey, who also spoke to the media - from Ward 5A at the 'County' - is one of the many women and children still detained.
The 25-year-old mother of two from Strathroy, is among just three 'bomb' patients remaining in the Omagh hospital. All are said by the authorities to be stable.
In the neighbouring Erne Hospital in Enniskillen all six patients were said yesterday (Wednesday) to be in a stable condition, too, although one is in intensive care.
There are two adult females receiving treatment in South Tyrone Hospital, Dungannon, although both are said to be stable, and, in the City Hospital, a 75-year-old woman is said to be seriously ill, but stable, and a 21-year-old woman ill, but comfortable.
Two children are among the Ulster Hospital's eight female patients. Both are said to be comfortable, but one of the six women is seriously ill. The other five are in a satisfactory condition.
The total extent of the carnage wreaked by the terrorists in terms of human suffering was also revealed on Monday when Sperrin Lakeland Health and Social Care Trust disclosed details of the number of attendances at accident and emergency units in the wake of the bomb, as opposed to hospital admissions.
No fewer than 373 attendances were recorded in the period to August 19, 37 of them in the four days after the bombing. There were 244 at Tyrone County Hospital, 73 at the Erne, 30 at Altnagelvin, and 26 at South Tyrone.
The final number of admissions in the period to August 19, inclusive of transfers, were 175, 69 of them to Tyrone County Hospital, 37 to the Erne, 25 to Altnagelvin, 11 to South Tyrone, 27 to RVH, five to the Ulster and one to the City.
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Publisher: TYRONE CONSTITUTION
Ref: TC/0264
Published Date: 27-Aug-98
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