Hospital devastated to learn patient was plane crash victim [Video]

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The jet that crashed Friday night was carrying an 11-year-old girl and her mother back home to Mexico. The girl had received treatment at Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia for a life-threatening condition. About an hour after the girl and her mother left, hospital staff learned that her journey of hope had turned to tragedy.

“Following the journey that she had been on, it was just extremely devastating,” said Mel Bower, chief marketing and communications officer for Shriners Children’s Health System.

While the hospital did not identify the child and her mother, Bower was able to talk about her relationship with the hospital and her time there. Officials in Ensenada, her hometown in Mexico, identified the girl as Valentina Guzman Murillo, and her mother as Lizeth Murillo Ozuna.

“She had come to us from her home country of Mexico with a complex condition that doctors agreed would be …