Oman accident: Injured Waheeda to remain in hospital for one more week

Muscat: Waheeda Aurangazeb, a pregnant mother who was injured in a road accident on December 20 in Ruwi, has to remain in hospital for one more week. “Medics need more time. She has to stay for at least one more week. She is six months pregnant and has suffered injuries to her
left pelvis. Medics need more time to decide on surgery, since she is carrying,” Azra Aleem, former director of the Pakistan Social Club, Oman, told the Times of Oman.
Waheeda was returning home with her young family, when she and her baby daughter Shohaiba Aurangazeb were struck by a truck at a busy junction in Ruwi.
Buried on Wednesday
Two-year-old Shohaiba died in the accident and was buried on Wednesday.
Waheeda’s husband runs a tailor shop in Wadi Kabir and the family has been resident of Oman for many years. Their home is on Ruwi High Street.
According to the latest update on road accidents released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), there was a 9.3 per cent increase in the number of expatriates who lost their lives in road accidents during the first 11 months of 2016, compared with the same period last year.
As many as 223 expatriates, 29 of them females, died in road accidents during this period.
The number of Omanis who lost their lives in road accidents fell by 6.7 per cent to 393, which included 62 females.
The number of Omani males who died in road accidents fell by 6 per cent to 331, compared with a 10.1 per cent drop in the number of Omani female deaths. In contrast, the number of fatalities went up by 6 per cent to 194 among expatriate males,
and by 38.1 per cent among expatriate females.
During the same period, the number of traffic injuries declined by 23.1 per cent to 2,604, from 3,388 injuries logged in the same period last year.
The number of Omanis injured in traffic accidents decreased by 24.4 per cent to 1,949, while the number of injured expatriates dropped 19 per cent to 655.