Three victims of Trung Kinh house fire discharged from hospital, one in critical condition

Three people were discharged from the hospital, including a mother and her two children, who were admitted after being rescued from a house fire in Trung Kinh. On the afternoon of May 25, Dr. Bui Sy Tuan Anh, Director of the Transport Hospital, said that after a consultation, the doctors assessed that the mother and her children were in stable health and allowed them to be discharged.

Thus, of the 6 people rescued from the fire, three have been discharged from the hospital, and three more seriously injured people continue to receive treatment.

Three patients were more seriously ill, the most serious of which was an 84-year-old woman, who was transferred to the Poison Control Center at Bach Mai Hospital last night. As of this afternoon, the woman was still in critical condition. Associate Professor, Dr. Dao Xuan Co, Director of Bach Mai Hospital, said that she had impaired consciousness, skin and respiratory burns, pneumonia, and respiratory failure. The patient had difficulty breathing through the glottis, inhaled a lot of coal dust, had metabolic acidosis (acid in the blood), and had heart muscle damage.

The old woman had an endoscopy to aspirate a lot of black coal dust in her bronchi and lungs. Leading experts diagnosed the patient with carbon monoxide poisoning, respiratory failure, and prescribed dialysis, mechanical ventilation, and feeding through a tube.

The remaining two patients, a husband and wife, were treated at the Poison Control Center. Both were on oxygen but were conscious and able to communicate with medical staff. Immediately after admission, the patients underwent an ENT endoscopy, X-ray, testing, IV fluids, and antibiotics.

Dr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen, Director of the Poison Control Center, said that both patients inhaled a lot of coal dust and smoke, showing symptoms of poisoning such as vomiting, nausea, metabolic acidosis, coughing up activated charcoal, pneumonia... After a day of intensive treatment, the pneumonia has improved, the metabolic acidosis has disappeared, but they still need to continue to be monitored. In addition to using antidotes, this afternoon the patients were treated with hyperbaric oxygen to prevent late mental and neurological complications.

These 6 people were victims of the fire discovered at 0:30 on May 24, at two houses on a plot of land in lane 119 Trung Kinh street, Cau Giay district. 14 people died in the fire.