All the passengers of the tourist bus spent that night in the hospital. Doctors not only had to ensure that people’s lives were not in danger, but also to help them recover from the shock – local psychologists worked with the tourists – and to make sure that the injuries received did not have delayed consequences.
Bruises, abrasions, cuts – mostly from falls. Frontal blow was sharp and very strong: according to preliminary data, the accident was provoked by a passenger car, which jumped into the oncoming lane. Its driver, a Belarusian, a resident of the city of Krichev, died on the spot. And the bus was thrown off the road into a ditch.
Here’s what passengers remember:
– They didn’t understand anything, just a blow, almost blows the seats, the bus throws it to one side and that’s it.
– It was a split second, we slept, then woke up from the fall, from the fact that we began to fall. We got out of the bus as quickly as we could. The special services reacted very quickly, and medical assistance was well organized.
There are children among the patients. The condition of the victims is improving – on the eve of the severe ones there were five, now there are two.
“At the moment, 42 patients are in the hospital, the condition of the patients is stabilized, they are undergoing all the necessary medical measures. Two patients in serious conditionIntensive therapy continues, “said Evgeniy Matusevich, chief physician of the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Hospital.
There were tourists on the bus from different regions of Russia, mainly the central ones: Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, Cherepovets. Two residents of the Nizhny Novgorod region and four from Ryazan were hospitalized. A task force has already been formed there, the governor instructed officials to contact their colleagues in Vitebsk to help the victims.
According to the latest information, doctors are ready to discharge some of the patients on January 4. These are 30-35 people, they will be able to continue treatment Houses.
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