7/7 Inquest Reporting
This article entitled “Doctors truggled after 7/7 bomb” is almost unfair. It criticises the fact that no medical equipment was available outside the BMA, where the bomb was detonated on the number 30 bus.
Doctors at the British Medical Association struggled to treat victims of the 7/7 bus bombing because there was no medical equipment at their headquarters, the inquests have heard.
Instead they used table cloths, jackets and ties as bandages for the wounded.
The hearings were told the doctors utilised “bits of bus” including windows as makeshift stretchers.
So should we ask suicide bombers to explode their devices in approved places, where doctors, paramedics and equipment are all readily available?
I don’t know how I’d react in such a situation, but I suspect all those doctors who struggled, are now much better doctors!
The Anonymous Widower 
I agree. And it amazes me that anyone would assume that the head office the BMA, an ADMIN centre not a hospital, would carry medical equipment beyong what is required for normal first aid in any building.
Comment by liz | January 20, 2011 |
I travel on the 30 bus regularly and the driver on the bombed bus is still driving the route.
Comment by AnonW | January 20, 2011 |