health officials in Jos reveals that the
number of casualties from yesterdays bomb
blast has sadly increased to 200.
A report by the National Emergency Management
Agency North Central Coordinator, Abdusalam
Abubakar had yesterday said that the number of
casualties was 118 .
Premium Times however paid a visit to the Plateau
Specialist Hospital this morning and an official
from the hospital confirmed that 15 patients who
were in critical state passed away just before
midnight last night.
Plateau Specialist Hospital, laboratory manager
at the National Blood Transfusion unit Demne Kut
confirmed the report saying that they died due
to lack of blood in hospital as few donors had
turned up to give blood.He said: "Yesterday (Tuesday), we had 15
persons who came and donated bloody freely to
the National Blood Transfusion, We are calling
for more donors, " he said.
This morning at the mortuary, Premium counted
up to 52 corpses laying on the floor of the
hospital's mortuary, most of these corpses were
women and children, including seven pregnant
women.
The situation at the Jos University Teaching
Hospital was like a horror story, with about 100
corpses pilled up on top of each other, making it
hard and impossible to number.
At Bingham University Teaching Hospital,
officials declined to comment on the state of the
hospital as they where busy trying to save some
of their patients in critical condition.
A source at Jos University Teaching Hospital,
JUTH revealed that about 120 corpses was
brought to the hospital.
Meanwhile the Plateau Police Commissioner, Chris
Olakpe has revealed that the Jos main market
will be shut until the security officials concluded
their investigations and the area was cleared of
debris.
Olakpe confirmed that yesterdays corpses and
the injured were taken to four hospitals.
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