Officials at a press briefing in B.J. Medical College Hospital provided updates on the Air India Boeing 787 crash, confirming the ongoing efforts to identify victims and support affected families. Dr Rajnish Patel, professor of surgery and hospital spokesperson, explained that DNA identification is underway and advised families not to visit the hospital unless instructed. Instead, they can call designated helplines and authorise a relative—such as a distant family member—with valid documentary proof to initiate the claim process. A total of 230 coordination teams have been formed to manage logistics and assist grieving families across different regions.
During the briefing, a man who had been waiting for four days to receive his relative’s body raised concerns over the delay. Officials acknowledged the issue and stated that the process involves detailed steps, including DNA collection, testing, and confirmation, which takes time due to the scale of the tragedy.
Reporter: Ishfaq Naseem
Camera: Vikram Sharma
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During the briefing, a man who had been waiting for four days to receive his relative’s body raised concerns over the delay. Officials acknowledged the issue and stated that the process involves detailed steps, including DNA collection, testing, and confirmation, which takes time due to the scale of the tragedy.
Reporter: Ishfaq Naseem
Camera: Vikram Sharma
#Boeing #Boeing787 #Gujarat #Ahmedabad #PlaneCrash #AirIndia #AirIndiaPlaneCrash #LondonFlight #Gatwick #VijayRupani #FormerGujaratCM #CMVijayRupani #Meghani #MeghaniNagar #Emergency #RescueOperation #BJHospital
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00:00Hello, I'm Ishpaq Nseem for Outlook and we are studying here right outside the hospital.
00:05There's a press conference which was given earlier by the officials which included Dr. Rajneesh Patel
00:10who is a spokesperson who is releasing the data about the number of people who have been killed
00:14as well as the number of people whose DNA samples were taken and whose DNA samples have actually matched.
00:20So he released the numbers which were also corroborated later by the Health Minister as well through a tweet.
00:26What he said in the press conference is that the people need not come directly to the hospital.
00:31They can be contacted on the phone and they can send anybody from the family who could be in a distant relative
00:37who would be able to establish through a documentary evidence that the person who died in the plane was his relative.
00:43Dr. Rajneesh and the other officials who were there at the press conference said that 230 people have been killed.
00:49They have constituted 230 teams to fan out to different places to hand over the bodies.
00:55At the press conference there was one family member who sort of protested there saying that how long it will take him to get the body back.
01:01For the last four days he has been at the hospital doing the rounds and he has not been able to get the body
01:06and the official said that it's a long process. It's a process which actually requires not only taking the samples in terms of taking the blood samples
01:14and then it's a process which is an elaborate process which also requires the matching of these DNA samples.
01:20There are also some medical students who were injured because the aircraft crashed right at the undergraduate mass
01:26where the doctors were taking food and in the accident four doctors were killed.
01:31And then the part of the wreckage also fell on the residential court.
01:34Since we're really getting is that these numbers are not getting consolidated.
01:38Sort of what is the exact death toll which includes the civilians who have been killed.
01:43Since we haven't tried that after this training weighed the officers, then it's not high where the world exclicaton is not coming after.
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