Kushinagar accident: 2 kids get better, taken off ventilator

Tribune News Service

Lucknow, April 27

Two of the four critically injured schoolchildren admitted to Gorakhpur’s Baba Raghav Das Medical College hospital are showing signs of recovery. They have been taken off the ventilator.

Thirteen children had died on the spot on Thursday when the Divine Public School van was hit by a Gorakhpur-bound passenger train at the unmanned Bahpurwa railway crossing under Vishnupura police station in Kushinagar district.

Of the eight injured, four critically injured children and the driver of the van, 22-year old Neyaz, were later referred to BRD Medical College hospital from the Kushinagar district hospital where they were taken after the accident.

Gorakhpur Chief Medical Officer Dr Shrikant Tiwari said that the condition of two children was much better on Friday and they had started taking food orally.

“The other two critically injured students remain on ventilator but are showing signs of recovery and may soon be out of danger,” said Dr Tiwari. The condition of the van driver remains serious. He suffered head injury and is on ventilator.

Meanwhile, Kiran Devi, wife of the former gram pradhan of Mishrauli who had lost all three children in the van accident, had to be admitted to the Kushinagar district hospital on Friday.

The condition of the couple had become precarious since the loss of their two sons and a daughter in the accident. While the father has bottled up, the mother has continuously been crying hysterically.

After Kiran’s condition deteriorated on Friday, villagers called the Kushinagar chief medical officer to examine her. The CMO referred her to the district hospital where she is under treatment.