Hospitalized Orlando Massacre Victims Continue to be Discharged, but 3 Remain in Critical Condition

A total of 8 victims remain hospitalized, 11 less than a week earlier.

ByABC News
June 26, 2016, 2:32 AM
Doctors take questions from reporters after a press conference with Orlando Health trauma staff at Orlando Regional Medical Center, June, 14, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Two days after 49 people were killed and dozens of others grievously injured in America's deadliest mass shooting.
Doctors take questions from reporters after a press conference with Orlando Health trauma staff at Orlando Regional Medical Center, June, 14, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Two days after 49 people were killed and dozens of others grievously injured in America's deadliest mass shooting.
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— -- The number of remaining hospitalized victims from the June 12 Pulse Nightclub massacre continues to gradually decline -- although 3 remain in critical condition -- according to newly-released figures from Orlando Health, the umbrella organization encompassing several local hospitals.

Orlando Regional Medical Center, located less than a mile from Pulse Nightclub, is part of Orlando Health and received most of the victims. Forty-nine clubgoers died, and 53 were injured. The shooter, Omar Mateen, was killed by police.

On Saturday evening, Orlando Health said 8 victims remained in the hospital -- 3 in critical condition and 5 in stable condition. The previous Saturday, 19 had remained hospitalized.

Orlando Health also announced that so far, its facilities had performed 61 operations on victims -- 7 of those operations were in the past week.

To give an idea of the gradual decline of hospitalized victims, here's the numbers from the past week:

-On Friday, 11 victims were still hospitalized
-On Thursday, 12 were still hospitalized
-On Wednesday, 15 remained hospitalized
-On Tuesday, 16 were still hospitalized
-On Monday and Sunday, 18 were still hospitalized
-On Saturday June 18, 19 remained hospitalized