‘Deep sadness’: Doctors, nurses recall intensity of treating victims from River Valley fire 

‘Deep sadness’: Doctors, nurses recall intensity of treating victims from River Valley fire 

The first thing she did when River Valley deaths started arriving was to arrange and install a group of around five doctors and up to eight nurses who were dispersed between the Children’s Disaster and the ICU, where they saw to eliminate wounds.

She was aware of exactly what they had to accomplish:” carefully and consistently assess” each patient.

Before “scrubbing over,” where a part of the victim’s dead body is removed and the area cleaned up before it is dressed, her staff followed a cautious process: removing temporary treatments, assessing and documenting each scar.

Doctors generally determine the proportion of burns to the entire body surface area and the level of burns before developing a treatment plan. More severe injuries may require surgery, such as body transplantation, where dead cells is replaced with new skin from a different body part.

preparing for the unknowable &nbsp

The arrival&nbsp, of paediatric patients – remarkable at the adult-focused medical – required quick adaptation at SGH.

Due to no knowing how many patients to hope, nurse physician Muqtasidatum Mustaffa described the situation as challenging.

” There was a lot of confusion. We simply needed to prepare our assets and personnel, she said. &nbsp,