Manchester doctors describe aftermath of bomb blast as NHS continues to treat casualties

NHS doctors in Manchester are still dealing with the aftermath of last week’s bomb attack as a number of patients remain in critical care in the city’s hospitals. As of 6 am on Tuesday 30 May, NHS England disclosed that 50 people were still being treated in eight hospitals in Manchester, including 17 patients in critical care. The NHS said that 116 people had received inpatient care after the suicide bomb attack at the Manchester Arena on 22 May, which killed 22 people. With emotions still raw after the attack, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon who spent 48 hours treating injured patients at Salford Royal Hospital said that he was subjected to racial abuse while travelling back to work to treat more victims of the attack. Naveed Yasin, who spoke of the “horrific” injuries that he treated including penetrating injuries from shrapnel, told the Sunday Times that he had been called a “brown, P\***| bastard” and a “terrorist” while driving back to work.1 But, despite being taken …