“We were here yesterday and survived a big ‘attack’. There was not much workload because of the wounded. From this point of view, the situation was manageable. And what does not “fight” is the dead. And that those who came are the new children. The victims are small children and students. I think the same applies to the dead.” notes on “K” Head of the Orthopedic Clinic of the Larisinsk Multidisciplinary Hospital, Kostas Bargiotas. And he adds: “Recently they brought us three more bags. Both had corpses, one had limbs.”

Larisa General Hospital he was called to open his vigil as soon as it became known train collision at Tempe to help the University of Larisa. All doctors went to the hospital, operations were carried out all night, and elective operations were canceled to treat the wounded. “Shortly before 5:00 a.m., the last operation for the victims of the collision with the train ended,” Mr. Bargiotas said. By noon, 34 wounded were admitted to the hospital, of which 19 had to be hospitalized. Most of the accidents are relatively mild, some of the victims have fractures and injuries of the musculoskeletal system, since yesterday, doctors began to write out an extract (five were discharged by lunchtime). However, two of the wounded are in the intensive care unit, one of them is in critical condition.

Accordingly, in Larissa University Hospital 55 wounded were transported, 29 of them were hospitalized. Yesterday afternoon, 21 victims remained in hospitals, four of whom were intubated in the intensive care unit.

“First, the wounded came to us, most of them with minor accompanying injuries, such as bruises and fractures. At some point, they brought the bodies.” described yesterday “K” doctor at the Larisin University Hospital. According to him, the number of deaths in relation to the clinical picture of the wounded is disproportionately high. “The picture we got is that those who were in the first cars did not survive, and those who were in the next cars received relatively minor injuries for the scale of the tragedy.”

The atmosphere in the two hospitals of Larisa is extremely difficult, the relatives of the wounded and missing are looking for their own. Yesterday afternoon, all the bodies (and those that were originally handed over to the university) were taken to the Larisa Hospital, where the forensic medical examination service is located. “The relatives of the missing are in polyclinics, they are informed, DNA is taken for identification. There, psychological support is provided at levels specially created for this. Basically, we are talking about people who met their children yesterday, who were returning to school, and in the morning they came here to look for them,” says Mr. Bargiotas.

In addition to two hospitals in Larisa, yesterday hospitals Katerinis, Gennimata in Thessaloniki and AHEPA. In total, more than 160 wounded were examined in all five hospitals and at least 65 hospitalizations were made. 40 ambulances and EKAV mobile units from Thessaloniki, Larissa, Katerini, Kozani, Lamia, Tripoli, Karditsa and Volos and two EKAV-ETIK (Special Disaster Medicine Unit) vehicles from Thessaloniki were mobilized to transport patients.

Crusade for Blood

I was touched by the awareness of the citizens who responded to the call to donate blood. Yesterday at noon, queues formed on the central square of Larisa, where two city hospitals, together with the Red Cross, organized an emergency blood collection for the victims. A long queue also formed at the Elpis Hospital, an emergency blood donation center in the municipality of Athens. The National Blood Donation Center has issued an urgent appeal to citizens to donate blood at hospital blood donation services across the country. Today, the Municipality of Athens performs emergency blood donations at the 1st Municipal Clinic of Solonos (phone for appointments 210-36.26.587), the 2nd Municipal Clinic in Neo Kosmos (210-92.39.865) and the 5th Municipal Clinic in Patisii (210-20.15.510). Blood sampling will take place at the headquarters of the Attica region (Sygrou 15-17) today from 9 am. until 13:30, and the Medical School of Athens invites its staff and students to donate blood in the following days to the relevant services of Laiko, Attikon and Aretaio hospitals.