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| A skin storage room at the Tri-Service General Hospital in Taipei, July 3. (File photo/CNA) |
A shipment of cadaver skin donated by the Euro Tissue Bank in Amsterdam was expected to arrive in Taiwan late Friday to help Taiwan treat people who suffered severe burns in the fire at a New Taipei water park on June 27.
Ger
Kropman, manager of the skin bank, decided to make the donation and contacted
Taiwan's representative office in the Netherlands after learning of the tragedy
on CNN, according to De Telegraaf, the country's biggest daily morning
newspaper.
Because the
burns patients are at growing risk of developing infections in the coming days,
the shipment must get to Taiwan as soon as possible to help save their lives,
Kropman was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
Tom Chou,
Taiwan's representative to the Netherlands, paid a visit to the skin bank
Thursday to thank the facility for its kind donation on behalf of Taiwan's
government.
Of the 495
people injured when colored cornstarch powder ignited into a fireball at a
Color Play Asia party held at the Formosa Fun Coast water park in New Taipei,
two have died and 211 are in critical condition, according to figures released
by Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare on Friday.
The number
of people reported in critical condition was 27 higher than reported Thursday
evening.
A total of
449 victims remain hospitalized, of whom 255 are being treated in intensive
care units, the ministry said.
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A patient
with severed burns at a hospital in New Taipei, July 3.
(Photo courtesy of the
Ministry of Health and Welfare)
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