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| Burn unit deals 5 with severe.

ISLAMABAD (AP) —

’ Eighteen women and nine
chlidren were freed today

from a Pakistani jetliner

hijacked to Kabul and efforts

‘were under way to secure the

release of the 121 passengers

' and crew still on board, the.

Pakistani government said.

However, a government
spokesman in Islamabad
said Kabul authorities
refused landing permission
to a Pakistani plane sent to
pick up the women and
children. He’ did not give an
explanation.

One of those freed was be:
Heved to be an American,
Deborah Leighton Weisner,

33, of Auburn, Me., whose .

family said ahe left the U.S.
on Saturday for Peshawar,
Pakistan, with her fiance, a
Pakistani national who is a
deputy sheriff in Auburn.
But there was bo immediate
confirmation.

The release came after
Pakistan gavein toone of the
hijacker’a demands ‘and
broadcast his statement that
he is not a member of the

’ banned People’s party of
executed prime minister
Zalfikar.Ail Bhutto. ‘

BY HIJACKERS

“The - broadeast also
identified the group the
hijacker belonged to as the
Alam-e-Zulfikar Or-
ganization, which Western
sources said was founded in

London by ‘Pakistani sup.

porters of Bhutto's son,
Murtaza.

The Boeing 727 was
diverted to the “Afghan
capital while on a flight

, Monday from Karachi to

’ Peshawar in northern
Pakistan with 149 people
‘aboard. Sources said the

’ hijacker threatened fo blow |

up the aircraft but set a
vague deadline for his
demands to be met,

The hijacker Identified
himself as Mohammad
Alamgir, said he had two
accomplices aboard the
‘Pakistan International
Airlines jetliner and they
wanted to fly to Iran. -

Alamgir ‘said he belonged .
humanitarian

ta a
organization and offered to
free the women and children
if the Pakistani government
took back statements that he
was a terrorist and a

member of Bhutto's People’s

party.

VANCOUVER icp) - Jett
Boyle, a roofer, was working ©

-ona tar and gravel job when

the accident happened.
“We'd spread tar paper
over the roof, and I was
going backwards, -ham-
mering nails," he recalls. .
“The taf paper overlapped

there for 15 days, terribly
swollerr’ ‘and kept alive by
blood . ‘tratisfusions:

tecelved 206 units of blood -

“during a l0-week period.

. The case became another
challenge for Vancouver
General's born unit ‘team,

cue of the most innovative in a

the roof by about 10 inches,- Canada.

and when came to the edge
1 couldn’t see."

Boyle’s foot slipped and he
plunged head first into a vat
of boiling tar.

“My belly hit the edge of
the vat and I went in up to
my hose. T pushed my arm
down to shove. myself
out,and then I started to
scream and the guys on the

‘roof with me came running.

“They coiddn't -find the

hose and I remember telling.

them where. it. was. They
hosed me down and the lady
in the house brought out a
sheet to wrap me in, and’ by
then 'd gone into shock."
Boyle was taken to Van-
couyer General Hospital. It
took 10 hours to get-the tar ’
olf and remove the burned -

“even had tar avin my
throat.”
‘The burns became infected

and Boyle developed pneu- .
. mona, He was moved to in-

tensive care, remaining

’

: Burn.:

Heading the team are

plastic surgeon Dr. Charles
and head nurse

Snelling
Trudy Staley. Working with

” them are two

physiotherapists, two oc-
cupational therapists, a

dietitian, a social worker and -

a . psychiatric ‘ nursing

specialist.

The unit's 23 beds are also
stalfed by a resident,.in the .
third year: of a five-year
plastic surgery specialty, 30
registered nurses, seven
practical nurses and peven
orderlies.

n.. victims "from
throughout British Columbla
are transferred to the unit.

“Qun admissions go up by .
about 10:15 per.cent per .
year,” says Staley..

‘She explained what makes

the team unique: “In most,
hospitals, the nurse gets the
wound ready then. the
surgeon does the actual
grafting. Our system
evolved from peak periods
when the unlt was full and it

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: Some.

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walla to be done by ene resi

‘The unit's” steif. ‘has to

handle. tremendous merital ©

distress as- well as the
physical . shock’ that burn
victims undergo.

__ MWe getsome terrible psy.
chological responses,”

Staley says. “I think to be
‘burned is one of the most
devastating injuries you can
receive —* especially. with

sevete facial ‘burns. Our-

culture and way of iife isn't

. geared to accept the abnor.
mal, "

Staley says the treatments

take a toll on staif as well as
patients...

“You have to touch it, ‘deal:

with it, treat it and inflict
pain. There are dressings,
treatments and exercises

every four hours, [f you let-

For information on these routes _
and other circulation questions contact:

Nance:

.

'

Ww: even once, the patient

slides back. Things get

Says purse-clinician Leith

dreams related to their in-

juries, but people who work .

in the -burn unit have
nightmares brought on by
tension and distress.”

Nance holds. weekly dis-
cussion sessions with the
staff. .

“They need to ventilate, to
get things off their chest."

When the debriding
process is completed, har-

. Vesting — removing healthy - .
_skin from a non-burned area _.

of the body — begitts. Only 15
per cent of a burned area
may be grafted at one time

‘social (
‘Lawerence- meet with. the

“Patients have bad

ow wr freshiroven n pig skin may

-be ‘applied, although it: is
> rejected io

one to three
.As well as dealing with
physical and mental suf-
fering,, Nance, Staley and
worker

accident victim's tampily and

friends,
“They are usually totally

shocked,” said Lawerence.
The person closest to the
victim sometimes can't cope
with massive disfigurement,
she said, .
“We try to persuade them

to concentrate on just one.

‘thing; perhaps the. eyes, the.
volee or even a hand —

, ‘snything that helps them re-

establish contact.” *

Some diff! iculties arise-

when the’ patient’, leaves |:
hospital ‘and ‘must face. the
“world on his own. Lawerence: ~
‘says this is especially so
when the burns are’ full-
thickness and require “the -

without sending the patient . mA

back into shack.

The patient’s-own skin, or ©
that of an identical twin, is |
. the only graft that will take

permanently. In the case of
extensive burns, temporary

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protection of, a special -

‘pressure suit called a ‘Tabet

garment,

” Patients with facial burns

wear nasks that cover the

“entire head except for slits

for eyes, nose and mouth.
"}t makes the person. ‘leak
like a bank robber and ye've

- had several of our ‘patients

picked up by the police,”
Lawerence sald. ~

Such was the casé, ‘for
Boyle. The outer part of ils

ears were removed,, "Bos.

eyelids were burned and.bis

* hair was burned off, forcing

him to wear the Jobst mask.
“Thate it,” he said. Butt he
wears it faithfully, ‘and will

‘continue to do 86 for 23 feduurs

a day, for at least one year
and perhaps fortwo, |

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