5-year old gas explosion victim in “very critical” condition

The five-year-old boy severely burned in the PH Costa Mare gas explosion on Friday, May 31 remains in “very critical condition” said medical staff at Panama’s  Hospital del Nino (Childen’s Hospital ) on Monday, June 3. The boy’s .10-months- old baby sister died on Sunday. Thirteen other residents, including the children’s mother, were injured.

On  Monday, Dr. Michael Carrillo, responsible for treating the child, said that the current situation of the child is “extremely critical” because it presents severe damage to the internal body, due to the inhalation of smoke, in addition to burns to  87% of the body.  The children belong to the Venezuelan family Muñoz Lima, in whose apartment the explosion occurred.

“What we are doing now is to provide support to all the vital functions of the child, hoping that the inflammation of the burns and the injured lung go down, in such a way that the functions of his body return to the greatest possible normality”,  he said.

Dr. Carrillo said that the Children’s Hospital has always had a relationship with the members of the Abou Saad Shriners Foundation, who provide their services and care in this type of case.  

The doctor said that although there is a possibility that the minor may be taken abroad to continue some type of treatment, “it is not an immediate action due to is its delicate condition”   reports La Prensa.

 The boy was hospitalized in the burn room of the Hospital del Niño with burns in 87% of his body. The mother of the two minors is in the burns unit of the Santo Tomás Hospital.