New Zealand volcano eruption: injured tourists suffering severe burns to skin and lungs
NZ burns units stretched to capacity as Australian hospitals asked if they can take on additional patients
Tourists injured in the eruption of New Zealand’s White Island/Whakaari volcano have burned lungs from inhaling sulphur dioxide and volcanic ash, and “very significant” deep-tissue burns, some to more than half of their body, a senior emergency doctor has said.
The Australasian College of Emergency Medicine president, Dr John Bonning, was working in the emergency department of Waikato hospital, one of four hospitals in New Zealand with a regional burns unit, when patients arrived from Whakatane and Tauranga hospitals on Monday.
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