Muktadesh Desk: Ten-year-old twins Sarinah Jahan Saira and Saibah Jahan Saima, who were injured in the Milestone School and College training plane crash, have returned home after being treated at the National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute for about three and a half months.
With this, 33 people who were burned in the plane crash have returned home after completing treatment.
On Wednesday morning, the hospital’s doctors, nurses and staff bid farewell to the two children at the institute’s director’s office.
At the time, National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute Director Mohammad Nasir Uddin said, “57 people injured in the Milestone School plane crash received treatment from this institute. Of them, 20 died while undergoing treatment. One has been sent to a mental hospital for trauma management. Three are still undergoing treatment, but they are all out of danger.”
Of the two twins, Saira was admitted to the hospital with 30 percent burns and Saima with 15 percent burns.
Director Mohammad Nasir Uddin said, “Our doctors, nurses and other staff have provided sincere care to every burn patient. They have worked hard. We have also been given the maximum support required by the government.
‘The hospital authorities are in regular contact with the injured who have returned home and are providing follow-up treatment,’ he added.
At the same time, he also thanked the foreign doctors from Singapore, India, China and the UK who have assisted in the treatment of the injured.
Yasin Majumdar and Aklima Akhter, parents of the twins, expressed gratitude for the sincerity of the hospital authorities and the support of the interim government.
On July 21, an Air Force training fighter jet crashed into a two-story building of Milestone School and College. A total of 36 people were killed and 124 were injured in the incident. The investigation committee identified flight error by the pilot of the fighter jet as the cause of the accident.