Gas explosion: injured teenagers from Kyzylorda sent to Almaty

Medtali Makurbekov, children Urgent medical help center Excitement departments manager:

Unfortunately, it’s very hard to predict. We are following the protocol to treat them as best we can. Their condition is considered very serious. Surgery is possible. One of the children had 70% burns, the second child had 75% burns, the third child had 80% burns, and the fourth child, in the worst case, had 85% burns.

The accident happened four days ago at a house on the outskirts of Kyzylorda. The two injured boys and two girls lived mainly in the Karmakshi region. He came to the house to visit his relatives. To make matters worse, all four were in the shelter when they were injured. Specialists gave first aid to the two and sent them to Almaty on a Safair flight.

Zaure Imambayeva, a doctor from the mobile medical team of the National Emergency Medicine Coordination Center:

We had two children. On August 1, two more children were born. All four are now in a hospital in Almaty. Both are in a frantic state. His father went with us. That man’s situation is very miserable. It took us about two hours and ten minutes to get from Kyzylorda to Almaty.