The Ministry of Public Health of Cuba (MINSAP) revealed theidentity of the four deceased in itserious accident that occurred this Saturday when a passenger bus that covered the route from Surgidero from Batabanó to Havana ended up overturned on the road.
Of the four fatalities, three are women and they resided in the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud. The fourth deceased isa man, a resident of the Arroyo Naranjo municipality, in Havana.
According topart of MINSAP, the pine trees lost their lives in the incidentThere's Oro Gallego (68 years old),Liudmila Alfonso Saucedo (47 years),Melisa Elodia Fernández Martínez (24 years old) and the habaneroAlberto Manuel Ramírez Aguilar, 37 years old.
The accident occurred at kilometer 10 of the Havana-Melena highway when the Yutong 610 bus, belonging to the National Bus Company (EON), overturned, which was transporting more than 40 passengers from the port of Batabanó to the National Bus Terminal. , in the Cuban capital.
The traffic accident occurred in the vicinity of the Managua highway, municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, andleft a provisional balance of 45 injured admitted to hospitals, of which five are reported in serious condition.
Of them, 12 patients are treated at the Calixto García Hospital. “In this center, three are reported in serious condition and nine are in critical condition,” according to the MINSAP.Four other minor patients They are treated at the “Juan Manuel Márquez” Pediatric Hospital and report “in care.”
At the Miguel Enríquez Hospital, 24 patients remain hospitalized (two in serious condition and 22 in care), while at the Carlos J. Finlay Hospital, five patients are admitted, all reported for care.
“In all cases, patients are cared for by multidisciplinary teams and information is kept with their families. Resources for medical care are guaranteed in each of the institutions,” MINSAP said in its statement, in which it also conveyed “condolences to family and friends.”
Preliminary reports from the announcerCaribbean Radio Ramon Leyva Morales They pointed to a possible illness of the driver as the cause of the bus accident. “Apparently, according to statements from passengers, the driver fainted, apparently [due to] something cerebral, and the bus overturned,” the communicator said.
At the time of writing this note, the real causes of the accident are unknown and we are waiting for the conclusions of the investigation to clarify what happened. For its part, the telecenterIslavision He said that the tragic event occurred “after the driver lost control of the steering wheel.”
The damaged bus was one of the means of transportation used to connect passengers who use the katamaran to and from Isla de la Juventud with the Cuban capital.
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