CHANGSHA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Central China's Hunan Province is pooling top-tier medical resources to treat people injured in a fireworks factory explosion in the city of Liuyang on Monday, which has left 26 people dead and 61 others injured, including six with severe injuries.

Right after the blast, Hunan provincial and Changsha municipal health authorities immediately mobilized a multi-disciplinary expert team from leading medical institutions, covering intensive care, burns, orthopedics, emergency medicine, neurosurgery and respirology, to guide treatment work at hospitals in Liuyang, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Changsha, the capital city of Hunan.

Most of the injured are suffering from head injuries and fractures. Among the six severely injured patients, a middle-aged woman with a penetrating chest injury received emergency external fixation surgery. "We managed to stabilize her blood pressure and vital signs, and her condition is now stable after meticulous treatment," said an intensive care physician involved in the rescue.

According to Tao Cheng, an orthopedics expert with the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, more than 20 patients were admitted to the People's Hospital of Liuyang. Some of them received fracture fixation and hemopneumothorax surgery on Monday night, while three patients with minor injuries were discharged on Tuesday morning.

"We have deployed high-end life support equipment including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for critically ill patients at the first instance," said a doctor from Xiangya Hospital.

"We have pooled high-quality medical resources, and will dynamically adjust treatment measures based on the real-time condition of the injured," noted Liu Jiayong, Party secretary of the Changsha Municipal Health Commission. ■