The protests have left 45 demonstrators and a police officer dead since last December, while another 14 people, including an unborn baby and four Haitians, have died of various causes caused by the roadblocks.
Deaths amid protests in Peru rose to 60 on Friday, with the death of a man in the southern region of Puno.
The Regional Health Directorate (Direna) indicated on social networks that the deceased was 62 years old and that he lost his life following suffering hypovolemic shock while being driven by an ambulance to the Puno Regional Hospital.
He was finally identified as Isidro Arcata Mamani, one of the people injured during violent clashes between protesters and security forces in the Andean city of Ilave.
Arcata was on a previous list of eight people who received emergency care at the Hospital de Ilave, where he arrived with a proximal third fracture of the left femur and a reserved prognosis.
Another 46-year-old man was also treated at the hospital for an abdominal projectile wound and a reserved prognosis, as well as six other people with fractures, wounds and bruises of varying degrees.
The Diresa de Puno indicated, in this regard, that the staff of the Ilave hospital and 46 other health establishments of the El Collao Health Network “are on maximum alert to provide timely care to the population.”
The mobilizations took place throughout the day and at night the National Police agents requested reinforcements in light of the apparent attempt to take over the city police station, located in the province of El Collao, according to local media reports.
Causes of the protests in Peru
The protests call for the resignation of the President Dina Boluartethe closure of Congress, the call for general elections for this year and the establishment of a constituent assembly.
In this regard, the Minister of the Interior, Vicente Romero, stated that “there is a planned and concerted action” in the demonstrations that have been taking place for a month in the country, with the intention of “blackmailing the government.”
The protests have left 45 demonstrators and a police officer dead since last December, while another 14 people, including an unborn baby and four Haitians, have died of various causes caused by the roadblocks.
The information regarding the situation in Ilave was reported shortly following the Minister of Health, Rosa Gutiérrez, reported that during the protests on Friday, 25 patients were treated in different hospitals in the country.
13 of them were in Lima with polycontusions that, according to what he said, have already been discharged, as well as another seven in Arequipa and four in Puno.
