The damaged Karwa bus.
DOHA: None of those injured in the bizarre Mowasalat bus accident at Al Ghanim bus terminus on Sunday evening
has died.
A number of people were injured in the mishap as the bus ploughed into a group of passengers who were waiting to board it.
However, until yesterday at least one Filipino who suffered serious injuries remained at the Trauma Intensive Care Unit (TICU) of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).
He has been identified by the embassy of the Philippines as Johnrey Atienza, a pipe fitter. He suffered head injuries and some bruises on his body.
“He is recovering fast,” the ambassador of the Philippines, Crescente Relacion, told this newspaper yesterday.
Medical sources said another person injured in the bus crash is at the trauma centre but he remains unidentified.
“It’s purely our guess that he might be a Bangladeshi national,” a source said. “And he might be in his late 30s or early 40s.”
He developed serious breathing problems due to a chest injury and is on breathing support. The support is likely to be removed today as he is improving, sources said. The Bangladeshi embassy, when contacted, said they had no information about this man or any other of its country’s nationals having been injured in the bus crash and receiving treatment.
Nepal’s diplomatic mission here said a Nepali national was injured, though not critically, and was admitted to the general ward of Hamad Hospital, and might be discharged in a day or two.
Enquiries with the mortuary of HMC revealed that no death had until late last evening been reported from Sunday’s bus crash at Al Ghanim terminus.
“We haven’t received any dead body from that accident — at least not so far,” a source at the morgue confirmed. Confusion was created after sections of the local media yesterday reported that one of the 11 injured in the bus accident had died.
“We tried to confirm but we came to know there was no death,” said a diplomat.
At least 11 people were injured in the mishap and most of them were discharged after brief treatment and until yesterday only three remained at the hospital, two of them at the trauma centre of HMC.
Mowasalat was not available for comment.
