Fernando Herrera Ramírez (63 years old), who kept relatives, neighbors, doctors and rescuers in suspense for 27 hours after being left caught in a 13-meter well in Holguín on June 11, it is progressing favorably.
“The patient is in good general condition and as the days have passed, injuries typical of the accident have appeared, which do not represent a threat to life,” said to the Cuban News Agency (ACN) the director of the Guillermo Luis de Moa Hospital, Manuel Galbán Blanco.
Herrera Ramírez manifests pain in the body and sequelae of pressure caused by the earth, the stones, including superficial blisters on the lower limbs, adds the specialist.
Successfully rescued the man who remained trapped in a well for 24 hours
Likewise, he receives local cures and both arms were immobilized to help the recovery of the peripheral nerves, although he is already moving his fingers.
Herrera Ramírez was trapped inside a well he had been working on on the morning of Sunday, June 11, before a landslide buried him 15 feet below the surface, some 13 meters deep. The story interested several international media.
Initially, he was assisted by Forces of the 30th Command, together with the Rescue and Salvage Unit of the Pedro Soto Alba Factory, from the neighboring Moa municipality. Then, on Sunday night, specialists from the Rescue and Salvage Group of Command 25 of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint) of the city of Holguín joined.
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During the rescue efforts, he was first supplied with oxygen and, much later, with water.
The land surrounding the well was soft from the heavy rains that have fallen in recent days on the central and eastern part of the country, leaving a desolate panorama.
