Air India crash: 2 missing MBBS students of BJ Medical College found to be safe; cook and her granddaughter still missing
The dean of BJ Medical College (BJMC) on Saturday afternoon confirmed to The Indian Express that the college has managed to reach out to and confirm the safety of two MBBS students who had been missing since Thursday, when the tail section of Air India flight AI 171 slammed into the hostel mess.
Dean Dr Minakshi Parikh said, 'Initially, two students had been missing. However, they have been reached. All students have now been accounted for.' However, a cook named Sarala and her granddaughter Aadhya are still missing.
Further, releasing a statement, the Junior Doctors' Association (JDA) of BJMC said, 'In reference to the recent plane crash… a total of 4 MBBS students, who were having lunch in the mess building, have sadly passed away. Out of the 20 MBBS students injured in the accident, 11 have been discharged with a stable condition. Among the family members of super-specialty doctors residing in the Atulyam building, the wife of one resident doctor has been injured and is currently under treatment.'
The JDA also appealed to the people not to be misled by rumours of a high death toll among the medical students. Dr Dhaval Gameti, President, JDA, in a phone call with the Indian Express reiterated the same.
On the day of the plane crash, when the passenger aircraft sheared through three of the four buildings of the undergraduate hostels of the medical college in Meghaninagar, Dean Dr Parikh told The Indian Express, 'The situation was so bad that nothing and nobody could be identified. So, we have set up teams to call up all the students.'
Asked about hostel residents, she had said that of the 250 students of the first-year MBBS batch, two students had lost their lives, three were in critical condition, and 11 others had minor injuries. Out of 249 second-year MBBS students, two students died, two others were in serious condition, and three had minor injuries. All 253 students in the third year of the MBBS course were safe.
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