Doctors at the Akmola Regional Children's Hospital are fighting for the life of a newborn who was injured in a road accident last Saturday, the website infohub.kz reports.
The four-day-old baby was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and a fracture. The child was hurt in a crash on the Astana–Petropavlovsk highway. That day, the newborn was being taken home from the maternity hospital.
Doctors also described another accident in which a child was injured: a girl was thrown from a car when it collided with a trailer. That crash occurred on the very same stretch of road, according to the report.
Several other accidents involving injured children have occurred in recent days, the report notes. According to medical staff, a total of five children injured in road accidents are now in intensive care at the regional hospital.
"On Saturday a four-day-old child was admitted, on Sunday a child was brought in from Zhaksy, also 10 years old, and is in intensive care; we had an accident there — 4 children were injured, one remained in Zhaksy. His condition is satisfactory, and we brought three by air ambulance to the regional children's hospital," said Yerbol Zhumagaliyev, head of the hospital's intensive care unit.
It was reported earlier that an accident involving a Volvo truck and Hyundai and Lada cars occurred on a highway in Akmola Region, injuring a newborn. A woman also died in a crash on one of the region's highways, and four children were taken to hospital.