The three soldiers who survived from the helicopter crash in Hanoi on Monday are now getting special treatments at the National Institute of Burns under Vietnam Military Medical University.

One of the three injured soldiers.

Nguyen Viet Luong from the institute said five soldiers were hospitalized with severe burns accounting for 40-50% of their bodies, respiratory burns due to inhalation of smoke at high temperatures, skull fractures and lung damage. Unfortunately, two of them died on July 8 morning due to severe burns.

“These are the worse cases I have even seen,” Luong said. “As soon as we were informed of the crash, we immediately prepared all the necessary facilities as well as deployed all doctors and nurses to treat the wounded soldiers.”

Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and other high-ranking officials have visited the wounded soldiers and asked the institute to do whatever it can to treat them.

Of the 21 soldiers on board Mi-171 helicopter when it fell to the outskirts of Hanoi, 18 died. Relatives of the dead in the crash will be in Hanoi to indentify the bodies and later join a memorial service scheduled for July 11 at Central Military Hospital 108.

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