Lubango – The number of deaths resulting from Friday's road accident in Toco town, 40 kilometres from Lubango city, in Huíla province, has risen to 11, after the death of one of the nine injured people taken to local hospital.
The collision involved a Toyota-Hiace, operating as a taxi, and a Shecman goods truck, which occurred on the Toco/Kilometer 40 stretch of National Road 280.
The accident killed nine people at the scene, the tenth being a 17-year-old boy who succumbed upon arrival at the Lubango Central Hospital on the same day with a traumatic brain injury.
The 11th victim was another 22-year-old who died on Sunday in the neurology department, also with a traumatic brain injury. The number of injured people is now eight, three of whom suffered minor injuries and were discharged over the weekend.
Speaking to ANGOP today, Monday, the general surgery intern, Agante Zola, said that four patients were operated on, two of whom are still in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and are showing slight progress.
According to the specialist, two of these patients are in the ICU, one aged 20 and the other aged 40, suffering from fractures to the pelvis, tibia and left humerus, as well as abdominal trauma, renal hematoma, among other complications.
The source said that two other patients who underwent surgery are hospitalized, but are progressing “satisfactorily”, namely a 33-year-old patient who has three rib fractures and an amputation of her right leg, and another aged 24, who suffered blunt abdominal trauma and fractures to the radius and ulna.
He said that although the two vehicles caught fire, they did not receive any patients with burns, as they were removed from the vehicle in time.
As for the two patients from the accident last week, when a goods vehicle skidded and overturned, who were hospitalized in the unit, one of them has already been discharged, while the other remains in the orthopedics department, in an incident that killed seven women and injured 11 others, in Lubango. EM/MS/TED/DOJ
