(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, December 28. Kazakhstanis
have donated 800 liters of blood for the victims of the plane crash
close to Aktau over the past two days, the statement of
Kazakhstan's Ministry of health said, Trend reports.
“To provide first aid to the victims within 10 minutes after the
crash of the ship, 22 ambulance brigades of the Mangistau region
and 6 brigades of the Disaster medicine Center were already on the
spot.
Thanks to timely hospitalization of the injured in hospitals of
Aktau city, qualified triage, and provision of full therapeutic and
diagnostic assistance in the first critical hours, it was possible
to save the lives of 29 people.
It is also important that ordinary people, our compatriots from
different regions, did not remain indifferent and immediately
responded to the disaster.
For two days in blood centers throughout the country, more than
1.5 thousand people donated 800 liters of blood. In Aktau alone,
490 people came to donor points; in Astana, more than 600 people
donated blood; in Shymkent - 125, Aktobe - 109, Zhetysu - 49,
Karaganda - 40, East Kazakhstan region - 34,” the statement
reads.
To note, an Embraer 190 passenger plane belonging to AZAL,
flying on the Baku-Grozny route, crashed 3 kilometers from Aktau
airport on December 25.
A total of 67 people (62 passengers and 5 crew members) were on
board the plane.
Following the crash of the passenger plane, 27 people were
admitted to the hospital. Of them, 15 people are citizens of the
Republic of Azerbaijan, 8 of the Russian Federation, and 3 of the
Kyrgyz Republic. The identity of one person has not yet been
established.
Both pilots of the crew as well as the flight attendant were
killed; two crew members survived.
On December 26, 14 victims and the bodies of four dead were
delivered to Azerbaijan.
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