British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke on Monday visited the Milestone plane crash victims at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS) in Dhaka.
During her 45-minute stay at the facility in the afternoon, the British envoy held a meeting with doctors and inquired about their conditions, said NIBPS resident surgeon Dr Shawon Bin Rahman.
Cooke pledged to extend all sorts of cooperation in treating the burn victims and extend hands for their rehabilitation, he added.
Shawon Rahman said she expressed satisfaction over the treatment protocol as well.
A nine-member specialised UK Emergency Medical Team has been working with Bangladeshi doctors to treat the Milestone burn victims at the NIBPS for the last one week as they arrived in Bangladesh on a three-week mission.
NIBPS officials said the British medical team attended every medical board meeting for the last three days to work under a combined medical protocol for the victims’ treatment visiting the patients every day.
“The British medical team comprises highly experienced clinical professionals and it includes infectious disease specialists, intensive care doctors, infection prevention and control nurses and rehabilitation specialists,” Rahman said.
He said during their stay their British doctors would with Bangladeshi clinicians to deliver “critical care and rehabilitation services” to injured students at the NIBPS.
“As many as 23 burn victims in the jet crash are still being treated at the burn institute. The condition of one patient is critical and is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU),” Rahman said.
NIBPS so far discharged 14 burn survivors from the institute after treatment.
Earlier on July 21, a Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet slammed into a two-storey building of the Milestone School and College in the capital’s Uttara minutes after it took off around 1pm, killing 35 including the pilot, so far, the health ministry officials said.