Singapore Airlines turbulence: Many injured passengers required spinal surgery
Bangkok hospital's director Adinun Kittiratanapaibool
Singapore Airlines turbulence: Many injured passengers required spinal surgery, 20 still in intensive care
Up to 20 passengers on a Singapore Airlines flight that encountered severe turbulence and made an emergency landing in Bangkok remain in intensive care. Several of them remain in intensive care. The director of Bangkok's Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital said he needed spinal surgery.
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Other local hospitals were also asked to provide their best experts to assist with treatment, the Associated Press reported. Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital is treating most of the 104 people injured in the incident. The hospital's director, Adinun Kitiratanapaibur, said at a press conference on May 23 that none of the 20 patients in the intensive care unit had life-threatening injuries. They include six Britons, six Malaysians, three Australians, two Singaporeans, and one each from Hong Kong, New Zealand and the Philippines. Passengers have previously reported seeing the plane shaking, loose objects flying everywhere and injured people lying paralysed on the floor of the plane.
The exact cause of the turbulence on the flight, which was carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew, is still unknown. The plane has been diverted to Thailand.
The hospital director said that of the 41 people remaining at Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital on Thursday morning, 22 had back or spinal injuries, six had skull or brain injuries and 13 had injuries to bones or internal organs.
He added that 17 operations have already been carried out, nine for spinal operations and eight for other injuries, and that 13 other people injured in the incident remain in two branches of the hospital. Ta. The injured passengers included 19 men and 22 women, ranging in age from 2 to 83.
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