With a spatula
On the followingnoon of this Tuesday, November 1, the death of a 17-year-old girl in Miranda, Carabobo, who was one of the athletes of the Kickingball team of that town who was injured in September, in a tragic road accident.
By Correspondent
The young woman, who responded to the name of Gabriela Figueredo, had been fighting for her life for almost two months in the Doctor Henrique Tejera Hospital City of Valencia (Chet), had a complicated health condition and died following presenting a multi-organ failure, indicated an unofficial source .
The death of the young woman makes her the fourth victim of this incident that took place on the Pan-American highway, on September 4 at around 8:00 p.m.
Various government and sports organizations such as the Municipal Institute of Sports and the Mayor’s Office of the municipality, sent their solidarity to the relatives of the young Gabriela. Similarly, sports activities in the municipality were suspended for three days, due to mourning.
The shortcomings of the public health system in western Carabobo
That fateful September 4 was etched in the memory of the people of Valle de la Alta, even the news caused a great impact on a regional scale, not only because of its tragedy, since at that moment two people died immediately and 11 were injured, most of them young minors, but because of the panorama that was immediately unleashed.
The lack of ambulances, gasoline, supplies, and health personnel made this situation even more difficult. Immediately, the social networks were activated to cry out for help, the solidarity of the people of Valle del Valle was immediate and in a second people began to arrive with any amount of supplies, fuel, human talent, which covered up the great failure of a system public health who is in intensive care.
There was only one ambulance available from the Bejuma Fire Department and one from Miranda, because in none of the three Civil Protection offices have there been ambulances for regarding five years. The rescue unit of the Bejuma Fire Department and a smaller unit from the Montalbán Mayor’s Office, police patrols, and private vehicles provided all possible support.
The lack of fuel delayed the transfers, the manager of one of the service stations provided support, opened almost at midnight that Sunday and equipped the units and many individuals also did the same.
The victims all had to be transferred to Valencia, because the District Hospital of Bejuma, already has regarding five years without an operating room, is in an eternal remodeling that the Chavista government does not finish.
This panorama came to light on social networks, so much so that it raised a rash in the Carabobo Governorate, and a few days later, Jesús París, secretary general of Governor Rafael Lacava, made a lightning visit to the Bejuma Hospital from where he made a video in the which said that what the residents denounced was to “dirty and muddy the government’s management” and denied that the hospital was collapsed and that it had no doctors or supplies, when the panorama seen by this newsroom and by the population that approached help, was another.
Poor condition of the road and imprudence
Another of the realities that currently exists in the area is the poor conditions in which most of the roads are. Dark, plagued with holes and assembled, many of them shine.
Witnesses to the accident reported that on that Sunday, the driver of a Gran Vitara was on his way to Miranda with five athletes from the Kickingball Mostans team, a representative, the boyfriend of one of the girls, a technician and a sixty-year-old man whom he they gave tail
At the height of the La Pedrera sector, near Pedeca, there is a sinking, according to sources the driver, who came from the beach, but still made the race to the victims, tried to avoid it, meeting the driver of a Renault Clio. Apparently speeding would also have been a factor that he played once morest.
On the day of the event, both drivers died immediately and 11 people were injured. 15 days later, the sixty-year-old Rafael Piñero dies, who suffered a severe head injury and this Tuesday the young athlete, both traveling in the Vitara.
