The Guinean head of state, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, visited the two main hospitals in the capital Conakry on Monday, December 25, to visit those injured in the fire at the country’s main fuel depot overnight. from December 17 to 18.
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With our correspondent in Conakry, Mouctar Bah
The Guinean head of state, accompanied by some members of his government, found the right words for everyone. Mamadi Doumbouya first went to the site of the explosion and noted, with great emotion, the extent of the damage, before going to shake the hands of the injured still being treated at the Donka and Ignace hospital centers. -Deen in Conakry.
Very moved, a teenager said prayers. “ I thank Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, God bless Guinea and the Guineans », he slips. Karamba Kaba, surgeon at Donka hospital, seems rather optimistic for a rapid recovery of his patients. “ We believe that in the coming days most of them will return to their homes “, he said.
Nearly a hundred injured people were urgently admitted to Ignace-Deen hospital the day after the disaster, before others were sent to other hospitals. Professor Mamadou Dadhi Baldé, director of the Ignace-Deen university hospital center, explains:
“ In total, we have welcomed 88 people since the start of the event. We transferred 38 between Donka hospital, the Sino-Guinean hospital and the Ratoma communal medical center. We freed 30 people after first aid. All bedridden patients at Ignace-Deen hospital are stable. There are three who have had trauma surgery and all the others are doing well. »
It must be remembered that this fire following the explosion, on the night of December 17 to 18, of the country’s main oil terminal located on the Kaloum peninsula, in the port of Conakry, left at least 23 dead, several missing and more than 200 injured.
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