DHAKA, Aug 11, 2025 (BSS) - A specialised UK Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT) has been providing treatment for the last three days to the burn victims in the Milestone jet crash at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS). 
 
"The nine-member British medical team attends every medical board meeting for the last three days to decide the protocol for the treatment of the burn victims," NIBPS Resident Surgeon Dr Shawon Bin Rahman told BSS today. 
 
The British medical team visits the burn survivors every day, he said, adding, the victims are being treated through combined protocol. 
 
The nine-member medical team of highly experienced clinical professionals includes infectious disease specialists, intensive care doctors, infection prevention and control nurses and rehabilitation specialists. 
 
Over the next three weeks, they will work with local clinicians to deliver critical care and rehabilitation services to injured students receiving treatment at the NIBPS.
 
Earlier on Sunday, two more burn victims in the Milestone jet crash at Uttara in the capital were discharged from NIBPS. 

"As many as 24 burn victims in the jet crash are now undergoing treatment at the burn institute. The condition of two patients is still critical and they are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) while one of them is on life support," Dr Shawon further said. 
 
Dr Shawon said with the release of two more patients they have already discharged 14 burn survivors from the institute.
 
Of the 24 patients now undergoing treatment at the burn institute, 22 are children -- 15 are girls and 8 are boys -- and two females are adults while seven of them have inhalation injuries and five have over 30 percent burn injuries, he continued. 
 
Eighteen of the injured are now receiving treatment at different wards of the burn institute. 
 
The physician said over 200 small and large operations on the fire victims have so far been conducted. 
 
A total of 18 victims have succumbed to their burn injuries in the institute while one died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH). 
 
Earlier on July 21, a fighter jet of the Bangladesh Air Force slammed into a two-storey building of the Milestone School and College in the capital's Uttara due to mechanical fault minutes after taking off around 1pm, killing 33, so far, Health and Family Welfare Ministry sources confirmed.
 
Pilot of the fighter jet Flight Lieutenant Towkir Islam also died in the crash.