Ottawa will be feeling this incident for a long time. It was a massive response to a tragedy. Ottawa Hospitals went Code Orange, pulling in extra staff, shutting down elective surgeries, calling other hospitals for extra equipment. It worked well. Much co-operation. First Responders are amazing. There were 90 passengers on the bus, with 3 dead, and 23 injured.
ICYMI: Ottawa police have released driver pending further investigation after Friday's horrific crash of OC Transpo double-decker bus that left 3 dead, 23 others injured https://t.co/o7VL9TANoc
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) January 12, 2019This young woman had her leg amputated, and she is in a medically-induced coma. One of our contractors knows a victim. His family went over to the victim's family home to help out. It sends a ripple of shock out into the community. Ottawans are amazing, too. People stood at bus stops with signs and kids with drawings, to help let both commuters and bus drivers know they are brave to carry on.
The last Code Orange was in 2013, when a bus drove into a train.Code Orange— Francis Bakewell (@BakewellMD) January 14, 2019
In-depth description of the enormous effort the entire @OttawaHospital put into caring for the victims of Friday’s bus crash. Kudos all round. Proud to call you all colleagues.
They rehearse a Code Orange. The last one was in November. They warn staff, pull in everyone from surgeons to social workers. The social workers meet the patients at the door, asking to call family members, or looking for IDs. The nurses set up IVs, patients were sent to the OR within 10 minutes.
Doctors and nurses converged on the emergency department. Hébert and Lampron, the trauma director who was now back at the hospital, organized the arriving staff into eight trauma teams, each of which featured two or three nurses, a respiratory therapist, an anesthetist, an emergency physician, a trauma resident, an orthopedic surgeon, a vascular surgeon and a trauma team leader. (The hospital normally has one such trauma team in operation.)
The hospital received seven patients with severe injuries, which included internal damage, head trauma, torn arteries and multiple fractures of the pelvis and limbs. Some limbs were mangled.
MEDIA: Fatalities in Ottawa double-decker bus crash, with multiple injuries.— OntarioParamedic.ca (@OntParamedic) January 12, 2019
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau & Ontario Premier Doug Ford send condolences and thoughts to victims and families with thanks to all first responders. https://t.co/w2IK2KQUw7 https://t.co/5zvpiomSMA pic.twitter.com/09QZAO7hlN
Ottawa Hospital also said Sunday that victims of the crash who were previously in critical condition had been moved to serious condition.https://t.co/cvLUHaIhzI— Globalnews.ca (@globalnews) January 14, 2019
On Dec. 10 Diallo was driving bus that collided with another bus, was sent to retraining, back on the road within the month. Diallo, a bus driver for less than a year, remains on probation https://t.co/e93lfYqQoe #ottnews— Shaamini Yogaretnam (@shaaminiwhy) January 14, 2019
It's OK to not be OK: Bus crash takes its toll . https://t.co/cbdv05GxnZ pic.twitter.com/Y88EKuBB3l— Ottawa Citizen (@OttawaCitizen) January 15, 2019
What do I take from this?
The health care system isn't 'broken', as many claim. There are many people around to help at the time. We are short personal support workers for home care; we are short nurses. We could use more staff, but those who work in emergency services are amazing. There were 6 surgeons working at the same time during this crisis. The day staff stayed on and the night shift came on duty.UPDATES:
The Good Samaritan stories begin to pour out from Ottawa. A young woman, with Down Syndrome, was sitting in priority seating in the front of the bus. She had to walk past those ejected from the bus, as well as wounded. Another victim took her under her wing. This gave her something to do, they said in the news. A neighbour brought the family dinner. It has a city-wide impact, but the helpers are there to be found.
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7 comments:
Sorry about the casualties and their families!
Nowadays, no services are "amazing" anywhere, especially in those countries absorbing newcomers from all parts of the world.
It starts with a gradual but steady deterioration in education quality (even in medicine and law!!),as a result of political interests that lead to negative interference.
Hari OM
I already don't like travelling by bus... well done to all aid responders and blessings for healing to the injured. There was similar here in Scotland and at the weekend there was yet another. YAM xx
I think we see the shortage of care workers down here too, but at a time like this, all necessary staff responded as they know how to, and what a massive organisation was needed to co-ordinate all the OR, triage, victim support, and clear the hospital of patients already in ED and rooms to cater for the injured.It seems this is the biggest mass trauma event for some time.
I hope they get answers as to how it happened, Tragic for everyone involved.
So sorry! Praying for you all, neighbors!
It was a shock. I didn't know about it until the following day when I saw the papers.
Tragic, but good to hear about an amazing response of emergency responders. Tough job.
That’s a pretty good overview.
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