Santiago. The deep injuries in his body, as well as in the respiratory tract, keepthe mayor’s son from the municipality of El Valle, Hato Mayor province, affected by a tank explosion with his parents.
The six-year-old boy has been confined since the night of August 30 in the Burn Unit of the Arturo Grullón Children’s Hospital, where he was referred from the Robert Reid Hospital Santo Domingo, where he was taken after being hit by the explosion along with his father, Mayor José Peguero, and his mother Yojani Marte, who recently died from this cause.
Dr. Renata Quintana, director of the Burns Unit, reported that the child has a significant extension of his body surface burned, and that the injuries are all deep.
“He is a patient who is in a situation of extreme care due to the extent of the injuries, because he also has injuries to the respiratory tract due to smoke and heat, his prognosis is reserved,” Quintana reported.
According to the infant’s aunt, Franchesca Peguero de Vega, the child is stable.
For her part, regarding the recovery of the child, the doctor said that it is not something they can talk about, since each patient responds in a different way, especially burn patients, since it will depend not only on the treatment that is is giving it, but of the response of the organism of each individual.
“These are deep injuries and he is a small child who still has many response systems in the body that are not mature enough, so the day-to-day response is that he is going to tell us,” he said.
The child is being cared for by the hospital’s multidisciplinary team that handles all patients, including pediatricians, surgeons, anesthesiologists, nutritionists, intensivists, and the psychology area as well.
The boy’s father is also admitted to an adult burn unit in Santo Domingo.
