11 injured in a truck rollover accident between El Tarf and Souk Ahras – El Hawar Algeria

Al-Tarif: Bilal bin Qaita

Behind a traffic accident represented in the overturning of a sand truck on National Road No. 82, linking El Tarf and Souk Ahras, 11 injured.

The Civil Protection Units recorded a distress call at the level of National Road No. 82 in the vicinity of the village of Bergilat located in the municipality of Ain Al Karma of the Bouhajar district, where they intervened quickly to evacuate the injured following the overturning of a sand truck belonging to a private contractor, which was illegally transporting workers working in a private contractor. Its construction workshops in El Tarf state.
The injured were of varying severity and were transferred to Mohamed Boudiaf Hospital in Bouhajar, where the alternate team sought help from their colleagues whose shifts had ended to extend a helping hand and contribute to treating the wounds of this number of injured in the emergency department. The response was quick with the arrival of additional medical and semi-medical crews.
The doctor on duty, who specializes in orthopedics, is absent and the reasons are unknown.
Those in charge of Mohamed Boudiaf Hospital in Bouhajar, headed by the director, who rushed with all the administrative, medical and paramedical staff, workers, to help their colleagues to quickly take care of the injured; The absence of the doctor on duty in orthopedic surgery, necessitated the urgent transfer of 7 injured to the University Hospital in Annaba, while 4 with mild injuries were kept under health care until their condition improved and they were discharged.
The services of the National Gendarmerie and the police accompanied the ambulances of the Civil Protection and the hospital and facilitated the transportation of the injured, while the emergency department witnessed the presence of the families of the injured amid manifestations of grief.
It should be noted that National Road No. 82 witnesses daily accidents, due to the large number of windings and the failure of previous studies to develop solutions during its rehabilitation, as many defects appeared in the works years ago, which requires serious study to reduce the specter of death that lurks users of this linking national road. Between the state of Souk Ahras and El Tarf.