Odisha triple train accident: Toll rises to 289 as injured passenger succumbs at SCBMCH
Cuttack: The death toll in the tragic Odisha train accident involving two passenger trains and a goods train rose to 289 with a 35-year-old labourer from Bihar succumbing to his injuries on Tuesday.
Bijay Paswan from Motihar district of Bihar had boarded the Coromandel Express along with six others on June 2 from Howrah to Palakkad in Kerala.
Raja Patel, who was also part of the group, had died at the accident spot.
Paswan was initially admitted to the Balasore district headquarter hospital and then shifted to central ICU of SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack with cervical spine injury and quadriplegia.
Doctors at the SCB Medical College and Hospital said Paswan was initially admitted in orthopedics department but his condition gradually began to deteriorate.
According to a letter issued by the SCB Medical College and Hospital today, the patient was admitted to the hospital’s Orthopedics department with a cervical spine injury with quadriplegia on June 3. Initially, the condition of the patient was stable but his condition began to deteriorate on June 3.
The patient was shifted to the hospital’s CICU on June 7.
“He was in a state of shock and his condition suddenly started worsening around 1.00 pm on June 13 and he was intubated with due medications around 4.00 am,” the letter read.
Around 7.00 am on Tuesday morning, the patient suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and was declared clinically dead around 9.30 am today.
