Blast survivors, families of victims get counseling
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Survivors and families of the victims of the oil pipeline blasts that killed 55 people in Qingdao last Friday are receiving psychological counseling, local health authorities said yesterday.
Six professionals from Qingdao Mental Health Center and two specialists on psychological crisis intervention counseled two family members and 12 injured people, China News Service reported.
They provided counseling at the Huangdao District branch of the hospital affiliated to the Qingdao University, and Qingdao Economic and Technological Development Zone No. 1 People’s Hospital.
“Most of them are elders and women,” said Dong Jicheng, a psychologist with local mental health center. “They have nightmares of the blasts and are nervous and scared,” he told the Beijing Times. Some need medicines to calm down, the newspaper reported.
More than 9,700 children from 19 kindergartens and primary schools in the petrochemical zone were attending classes when the underground pipeline exploded. No children were injured but the blasts left scars in their minds.
The No. 2 Middle School of the Qingdao Economic and Technological Development Zone was just 100 meters away from the blast. The school gate and roads leading to the school were blown away.
Psychologists have also been working with them, gathering them in a stadium and asking them to do group games to help them recover, China Central Television reported.
Eighteen other schools resumed classes on Monday in the eastern city.
The blast which occurred at 10:30am last Friday was triggered by crude oil leak, the city government said.
Pipeline removed
Authorities yesterday decided to stop using the oil pipeline that runs through Huangdao District. All the petrochemical pipelines at Qinhuangdao Road and Liugongdao Road will be removed.
On Wednesday, Sinopec, the pipeline operator, said it had suspended two company executives. The company also said that it has started a comprehensive work safety overhaul concerning its pipeline networks for oil and natural gas.
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