AN 18-year-old Shanghai student injured in the Taiwan water park blaze was admitted to the city’s Ruijin Hospital yesterday.

Teresa Yip has burns to 37 percent of her body, particularly her arms and legs, with 25 percent categorized as third degree, the most serious level, said Dr Huan Jingning, director of the hospital’s burns department.

She will have surgery this week to remove dead tissue and will require several skin transplants over the next two to three months, doctors said.