A survivor on admission at the Tema General Hospital
ANOTHER victim in the recent Ashaiman gas explosion accident was yesterday reported dead at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital where he had been on admission at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre.
The deceased, Abdullai Manamu, 25, according to hospital officials, passed on at about 9:a.m. yesterday morning.
Hospital officials said Manamu who sustained 75 per cent injury from the accident also had an inhalation injury in his respiratory tract.
An inhalation injury results when the respiratory passage suffers severe burns , making the passage to swell.
His death followed that of 37-year old father of two, Baba Yakubu Issaka, who passed away on Tuesday at the same facility.
The Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Mr Mustapha Salifu, who confirmed the death to the Daily Graphic said the deceased's body had been deposited at the hospital’s morgue awaiting the coroner’s report and onward release to his family for burial in line with Islamic tradition.
Mr Salifu indicated that although an "escharotomy" operation, where the skin is cut open to decompose the dead tissue and allow the deceased access to passage through the respiratory system was done, the severity of the burns made it impossible for him to survive.
He said two others - Pascal Amuzu, 27, and Mr Prince Agyare, who also sustained similar injuries were still being worked on by a team of doctors at the facility.
A third person, Mr Richard Dzineku, is said to be in good condition and expressed the hope that he could pull through.
The deceased was among 16 persons who sustained various degrees of injury in a gas explosion at a popular food joint known as the "Boys Boys fried rice joint” in Ashaiman, adjacent to the Opportunity Bank in the municipality's central business district.
Eleven others who were rushed to the Tema General Hospital were said to be responding to treatment.
Source: Della Russel Ocloo, Daily Graphic (Thur July 29, 2011)
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