Crans-Montana: last Swiss fire victim treated abroad set to return home

The fire in the Le Constellation bar in the Swiss ski resort on New Year’s Eve killed 41 people and injured 115 others, some seriously. Keystone-SDA

Only one Swiss national remains hospitalised abroad in connection with the Crans-Montana fire tragedy. He will be able to return to Switzerland next week. A total of 41 people died in the disaster, and 115 were injured; 38 remain in hospital or are receiving specialist treatment.

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This situation has prompted the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) to stop publishing a weekly count of the number of people injured in the New Year’s Eve fire at the Le Constellation bar who were hospitalised.

“The main reason why the FOCP recorded national figures was to plan repatriations in line with hospital capacity,” the office told the Keystone-ATS news agency on Friday.

“These figures were therefore an essential element in the decision-making process of the competent authorities. As this need has now been met, these data are no longer collected.”

The fire in the Le Constellation bar in the Swiss ski resort on New Year’s Eve killed 41 people and injured 115 others, some seriously.

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At the last count published on April 29, 38 people were injured and receiving specialist treatment, six of whom were at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in Lausanne and four in Zurich.

Treatment abroad

At the end of April, 10 people with burns were being looked after by Suva. Seven were at the Clinique romande de réadaptation in Sion, canton Valais, and three in Bellikon, canton Aargau.

Eighteen other patients were still being treated abroad. Of these, ten were still being treated in France and eight in Italy (one has since been able to return home). There were no more cases recorded in Germany.

At the end of April, eight foreign nationals domiciled in Switzerland were still being treated: half in Switzerland, the other half in a neighbouring country.

Adapted from French by AI/sb

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