Vitsebsk Woman, Who Was Seriously Injured In Fire At Mall, Discharged From Minsk Emergency Hospital
- 4.01.2025, 10:58
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The woman was at work when the fire started.
A resident of Vitebsk, Tatsiana Kazeka, who was seriously injured in a fire in a shopping center in the regional center on December 13, was discharged from the emergency hospital in Minsk. The woman told how she feels now in a story on the state channel “First Informational”.
Tatsiana said that she was at work when the fire started. The woman was going to watch the opening of the Christmas tree after work, but did not have time to leave.
— There was already smoke around. I tried to go down one staircase, there was already a fire down there. I tried to run to the second staircase, but access was also closed there, everything was very hot, — she described that day.
Kazeka was saved during the fire by the Ministry of Emergency Situations. In serious condition, she was first taken to the Vitsebsk Regional Hospital, and a week later she was taken by special transport to the Republican Burn Center in Minsk. The woman was unconscious for two days.
— Now, of course, I feel already, not as much as before, but I feel. I am already breathing, — Tatsiana described her current state of health.
According to the head physician of the capital's clinical emergency hospital Volha Sviatlitskaya, thermal inhalation injuries are a common cause of death among victims of fires. They can lead to death, even if a person has not received burns.
— And [this] is a very serious aggravating factor for any percentage of burns that happen to people, because in this situation the lungs are affected. When our team arrived there [in the Vitsebsk hospital], there were more than 10 people doing a bronchoscopy on this patient, the guys worked all night, washing — that is, using a bronchoscope, they went into the respiratory tract, where damage from the fire was visible, a bare coating of soot.
The story reported that the Vitsebsk resident will continue to recover at the Republican Clinical Hospital of Medical Rehabilitation.
As a reminder, the fire in the Belarus shopping center in Vitsebsk occurred on December 13. Rescuers evacuated more than 200 people, including children. 16 casualties were taken to hospitals, including two children, and later four more people sought psychological help.
On December 14, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 304 of the Criminal Code, and on December 16, the law-enforcers detained the first suspects.
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