Health Ministry: Six injured in Kocan tragedy returning to northern Macedonia

Six patients who suffered fire injuries at the discotheque in Kocan are returning to northern Macedonia after treatment abroad.

Five of them return from Serbia and one from Italy. The Health Ministry there announced that they will be admitted to the health institutions from which they were sent, and will continue treatment depending on their injuries. The ministry reports that there are still patients in serious health condition.

As far as other patients still abroad are concerned, some of them have noted improvement, while others remain assembled and in more serious health condition”, reports the Health Ministry, Alsat-mk.

While the situation of patients being treated in local hospitals is good, authorities say.

“In the country's health institutions remain 16 patients in good general condition, as well as during yesterday's day six at Ohrid Nahum Hospital “and the City General Hospital “8 September”, as well as four in private hospitals”, says the Ministry of Health.

Hundreds of others were injured in the tragic accident on March 16, Kocan, where 59 people died./Periscopi/