After requests for help spread on social networks, the relatives of Emilio Gamboa Rojas, who is found in critical condition after being run over in the multiple accident that occurred in Güira de Melena, this Tuesday.
Gamboa, 37 years old, is a native of Guantánamo and resides in that municipality in the province of Artemisa, where on Tuesday afternoon A car lost control and ran over five people, three adults and two minors., who were hospitalized.
The man from Guantanamo was reported as "ventilated critical polytraumatized", according to the medical report published by the station Artemis Radio on Facebook. He and the other two injured adults were admitted to the Calixto García Surgical Clinical Hospital in Havana, due to the severity of their injuries.
Posts in Facebook groups Since Tuesday, they asked for help to find Gamboa's relatives in Guantánamo.
He journalist Miguel Reyes He also requested help to locate them. Hours later, a cousin confirmed that the family had already been located and was heading to the capital. According to the comments, Gamboa is a native of San Antonio del Sur.
The medical evolution of him and the rest injured in the tragic incident is unknown. car accident.
According to preliminary information, the driver lost control of the vehicle and ended up running over a group of people who were waiting for public transportation, at “a collection point for students and teachers who are traveling to the El Gabriel Rural Popular Council,” he indicated. Artemis Radio.
As a result of the incident, five people between the ages of 16 and 59 had to be transferred by the Integrated Medical Emergency System (SIUM) to hospital centers to receive “urgent and emergency medical care.”
In addition to Gamboa, they were diagnosed as serious María de los Ángeles Fuente Barbán, 59 years old, with open fracture of tibia and fibula; and Darian Pedroza Quevedo, 46 years old, with head trauma.
Meanwhile, high school students Carla de la Caridad González Cruz and Johan Abreu Duranza, both 16 years old, did not suffer serious injuries and were referred to the Juan Manuel Márquez Pediatric Hospital, also in the capital.
Past year, 729 people lost their lives and another 5,938 were injured as a result of traffic accidents in Cuba. In total, 8,556 events of this type were reported.
The human factor was responsible for 91% of these incidents, authorities said. At least “60% of the accidents, 48% of the deaths and 66% of the injuries were caused by not paying attention to vehicle control and not respecting the right of way,” said Colonel Roberto Rodríguez, head of the Specialized Traffic Body of the General Directorate of the National Revolutionary Police.
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