3 Mexico day care fire victims treated in Calif.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Doctors at a California hospital have begun what they say will be months of treatment for three youngsters who were badly injured in a fire that killed 44 infants and toddlers at a Mexican day care center.
The children were being treated Monday at Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California. They were brought to Sacramento by Mexican authorities from Hermosillo, where the fire occurred.
A 3-year-old boy who suffered burns over about half his body was doing well Monday after four hours of skin graft surgery, said Dr. David Greenhalgh, the hospital’s chief burn specialist.
A 3-year-old girl burned over more than 80 percent of her body remained in critical condition. A 2-year-old boy with burns on 20 percent of his body was in serious condition.
After they were treated for severe swelling that is typical of such injuries, all were expected to undergo a series of operations to receive skin grafts.
“You can imagine we have to take all the burns off down to live tissue, then find skin from another part of their body and cover those areas. When we’re out of skin we will actually take skin from a skin bank and cover them temporarily,” Greenhalgh said. “It’s a long process for their whole stay.”
He said children typically stay in the hospital about one day for every percentage of burn on their bodies. They face a lifetime of rehabilitation, their doctors said.
“If you can imagine, you lose the main barrier to infection by losing your skin,” Greenhalgh said. “Then we’re constantly fighting sepsis infections, so you have to constantly monitor that.”
Officials with the Mexican consulate in Sacramento said they were unsure whether any other children will be sent to the Shriners burn center, but hospital staff said they remain open to the possibility.
“There are a significant number of children remaining in Mexico whose conditions are fragile,” said Catherine Curran, a spokeswoman for the hospital. “We continue to work with Mexican health care officials to determine if there are other children who can be helped.”
The families of the children being treated at Shriners said during a news conference they are grateful for the free medical care and other help they’ve received in California.
“Continue with your prayers, not just for us, who have found some measure of calm, but also for all the others,” said Villegas Yanez, mother of the 3-year-old boy. “There are so many other parents and so many other children in Mexico.”
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