PUTRAJAYA, March 9 — A health team has been stationed at The Everly Hotel here to handle cases of trauma involving family members of passengers aboard a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight that went missing en route to Beijing yesterday.
A member of the team who declined to be identified said the 25 doctors and nurses in the team worked in batches of five for six hours each.
“Our task is to calm down the traumatised family members, and we have had to attend to a few of them,” he told Bernama today.
He said the health team was despatched to the hotel after some of the family members experienced extreme trauma.
“We were informed that they underwent the trauma at the KL International Airport (KLIA) and were transferred (to the hotel) here to prevent the situation from worsening. Some of them lost consciousness,” he added.
Another member of the health team, a medical officer, said the family members of the passengers were transferred to the hotel to keep them away from reporters.
Meanwhile, a MAS employee said almost all the family members of the passengers were being accommodated at The Everly Hotel here.
The employee said two family members of every passenger of Flight MH370 had been asked to bring along their passports. They were scheduled to be flown to an undisclosed destination.
The MAS Boeing 777-200 ER bound for Beijing had left KLIA at 12.41am yesterday and went missing about two hours later over the South China Sea.
It was carrying 227 passengers of 14 nationalities and 12 crew. The plane was to have landed in the Chinese capital city at 6.30am (Beijing time). — Bernama
