A young girl died and thirty-six Egyptians and foreigners were injured when a bus flipped on the road to a Red Sea beach town.
A bus transporting Egyptians and tourists flipped over on Friday, 38 kilometres from a large Red Sea touristy beach town, Hurghada. A young girl died in the accident and thirty-six were injured.
The injured were transferred to various hospitals, including Hurghada's public hospital and two private hospitals: The Nile and El Gouna's.
Four foreigners - three German tourists and a Ukranian - were transferred to the military hospital upon the request of Hurghada's governor, Mahmoud Essam.
According to a report published in July 2011 by the Central Authority for Public Transport, road and rail accidents claimed over 7,000 lives in Egypt in 2010 - a rise of 7.9 per cent over the year before.
Source: http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/48252.aspx
Bus accident in Red Sea highway, 1 child dead, 36 injured
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Re: Bus accident in Red Sea highway, 1 child dead, 36 injure
Although it is nice to see that the tourists were treated well at the request of the Govenor, no doubt to limit the detremental impact on tourism. It is sad that the Egyptians were treated in hospitals that he must have considered to be of a lower standard if he sent the tourists elswhere. I suppose what I am saying here is that a high standard of care should be available to both tourists and Egyptians alike, but the biggest tragedy is the death of the young child regardless of her nationality.
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