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Anxious relatives camp outside trauma centre

NEW DELHI: Anxious relatives of victims injured in the Saturday blast at Mehrauli along with volunteers who had come to donate blood kept up their vigil outside the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences Trauma Centre for the second day on Sunday. However, information about the death of a 60-year-old unidentified person on Saturday night rendered the atmosphere more grim and tense.

“Though we know that patients are getting the best possible care, the general atmosphere is very tense. It seems unreal, only a few days ago we were talking about the ordeal of people injured in the recent Delhi serial bomb blasts and now we are sitting outside the hospital wondering how safe it is to live in the Capital. We can’t keep losing our family members, children and livelihood to terrorism. For us life has changed forever,” said Neeta Lukar, whose 10-year-old brother Vikas was among those injured in the blast and undergoing treatment at the trauma centre.

She said Vikas had gone to the market to get a compact disc.

“He is a young boy who has now come face to face with the ugly side of terrorism. He has sustained injuries in the stomach and knees and there are several sharp splinter injuries all over his body,” she added.

Giving an update on the condition of those admitted at AIIMS trauma centre, Medical Superintendent M. C. Misra said: “We have recorded two deaths so far, that of a young boy Santosh who was brought death on Saturday and an unidentified 60-year-old male who died last night. We now have six patients in a critical condition, of which two have head injuries and are extremely serious. Four others are recovering but we will have to wait and access their condition over the next few days. We also have two young children who have been kept under close observation. While the girl has sustained injuries on her head and neck making respiration for her very difficult, the boy is relatively more stable.”

Volunteers who had come in with food and water were seen consoling worried relatives and friends of those injured in the blast and under treatment at the trauma centre. Also, several blood donors came in to donate blood and extend their support to the victims of the blast.

A mathematics teacher in a government school, H.C. Sharma, who had come to donate blood, said: “Bomb blasts and other such acts of terrorism take away the faith of people in each other, but if we devote ourselves to helping the victims their faith in humanity will be restored. This is my small gesture of brotherhood.”

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