SIXTEEN girls who were victims of the tragic fire at the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory in Region Eight are currently patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) receiving treatment for injuries sustained.
This is according to GPHC’s Public Relations Officer, Jai Lall, who told the Guyana Chronicle that the young girls who were victims of the fire are still at the hospital receiving care.

Lall stated that of the nine girls who were transported there on Monday, two patients were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit and are being monitored.

Further, in relation to the other patients, he noted that their condition is still listed as serious but stable, and they too are being monitored by nurses and doctors at the institution. On Tuesday, another seven were admitted to the GPHC.
On Monday, following the fire, nine girls were transported to the GPHC as their condition was listed as more serious, based on their injuries.

The girls were medically evacuated on three separate flights in threes to the GPHC. Early on Monday, Dr Vickita Nandan provided an update on the six patients who were at the hospital by Monday morning.

During that briefing, she noted that those six patients had varying degrees of burns that ranged from approximately 30 per cent of the total surface area to about five per cent.

She noted that one of those patients had to be taken to the operating theatre to have limb-saving surgery done due to the injuries received, while three others were admitted to the hospital’s Paediatric High Dependency Unit.
Later on Monday afternoon, Dr Shilindra Rajkumar who went to Mahdia with a team of doctors in the wee hours of Monday morning, brought three additional patients to the GPHC for further treatment based on their condition.