Injured S. Koreans to return home

Injured S. Koreans to return home

INDONESIA: Four of the six South Koreans wounded in the latest
series of bomb blasts on the Indonesian resort island of Bali are
to be repatriated, a travel agent said on Sunday.

"From the six, four will be evacuated," said Tommy Soetrisno,
travel operation director of PD Tour, which brought the group to
Bali.

Soetrisno told AFP at the hospital that the four would be
flown back to South Korea for further treatment there. All six
were women, he said.

The two remaining South Koreans include one woman who is due
to undergo surgery to treat an injured bladder, and another who
wants to keep her company, he said.

"The hospital has already confirmed that there are not too
many problems for this (the repatriation)," he added.

A nurse caring for the six Koreans, Hilvana, said that any
patient allowed to be evacuated had to be able to sustain seven
straight hours of travel.

"The doctors are very strict about this, and if there are
indications that they will not be able to stand seven hours of
travel, the permit for them to leave would not be given," Hilvana
said.

Soetrisno said that the travel company, which brings about 500
South Korean visitors to Bali every year, would bear the whole
cost of the repatriation.

He said that the six were part of a group of 18 South Koreans
who had opted to dine at Jimbaran that evening, while the others
decided to go somewhere closer to their hotel. -- AFP