The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi said 32 patients, rescued from Thursday’s collision of a train and a staff bus in the Ikeja area of the state, have been discharged.
This was disclosed by Abayomi to the media during a news conference on Friday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).
According to the Commissioner, 102 casualties in all were reported.
He said that six people had died, eight people had been treated at Orile-Agege General Hospital, five people had been treated at the State Accident and Emergency Centre at Old Toll Gate, and 19 victims had been released from LASUTH.
He added that 256 units of voluntary blood was received on Thursday from Lagos State residents, while 40 units of blood had been transferred for the victims today.
“It is important to note that from about 12 o’clock yesterday till now, we have not lost any other passengers from this accident. So, the act of triage was very important in saving lives and reducing the casualty of this ghastly accident.
“At the same time, there are very few hospitals in the world that can cope with a sudden surge of very critically injured patients, so the triage process also identifies some of the injured passengers that can be transferred to other established general hospitals in Lagos.
“I went to visit them after I left LASUTH, and all of them are stable and doing fine. Some of them will indeed be discharged later on today,” he said.