Staff Reporter :
At least 63 patients were injured in an explosion at BM container depot in Sitakunda while undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical College (CMCH) Hospital.
Six of them will need to be taken to the Institute of Ophthalmology in Dhaka for advanced treatment. The cornea of one eye is ruptured. He may have to be taken out of the country.
Deen Mohammad Nurul Haque, former director of the National Institute of Ophthalmology, told the media in the conference room of the hospital’s director after visiting the hospital on Tuesday noon.
He said, “I have come to the hospital in Chittagong under instructions of the Prime Minister to see the patients undergoing treatment for the fire.” I have seen every patient. Some patients are seriously injured and some of them have eyes injured only. Cornea of one eye is ruptured. He will be taken to the National Institute of Ophthalmology in Dhaka for advanced treatment. If necessary, it may have to be taken abvoad for advanced treatment, he added.
He said that the eye condition of five-six patients is very bad. Different parts of their bodies have also been burnt. That is why it is not possible to take them to Dhaka now.
The fire was brought under control around 11 am on Tuesday, about 61 hours after a horrific fire broke out at the BM container depot on Saturday night.
