Three young girls injured in the blast only received cotton wool for their wounds, despite their injuries clearly requiring medical bandages.
A young female victim of the bomb blast
The treatment of victims of Tuesday’s bomb blast at a tipper garage in Yola, the Adamawa State capital was being hampered by lack of medical supplies at the Yola specialist Hospital.
The National Emergency management Agency (NEMA) confirmed that 32 persons died from the blast while 80 persons were injured.
The injured were taken to the Federal Medical Centre and Yola Specialist Hospital, a state-owned hospital.
It was learnt on Wednesday that most of the victims conveyed to the Federal Medical Centre and Yola Specialist Hospital, a state-owned hospital, could not receive needed treatment due to lack of medical supplies.
One of the victims seen on his hospital bed said he was only given 'two tablets and one injection since last night.' He told a correspondent as he writhed in pains.
"Since they brought me yesterday, I was just given Tetanus injection and two tablets of Paracetamol. You can see blood is still dripping from my wounds."
Another victim said, "After I paid one thousand naira, they did an x-ray and said there is a metal inside my wound, however, nothing has happened since then."
Another victim of the blast
A woman whose three daughters were affected by the blast told a correspondent that only cotton wool was applied to her daughters’ injuries, as there was no enough medical supply.
"They just put cotton wool on the injuries and use masking tapes because they ran out of bandage. There was also no iodine to treat the wounds, only God can help us," she said.
The woman said she "had to pay N8000 to get the wounds cleaned" adding that x-ray done on her daughters showed '"here is a foreign object inside the chest of one of them."
It was gathered that the Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly on Wednesday led some of the lawmakers on a visit to the victims of the blast.
The victims said the lawmaker did not, however, make any pledge of assistance on behalf of the state government.