Two critical patients continue with ventilation and spent the night, while a patient with severe trauma remains stable.
Miami, United States. – At 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, 23 people remained hospitalized – 14 adults and nine children – for the accident that occurred yesterday morning in the vicinity of the town of Esperanza, municipality of Ranchuelo, Villa Clara.
According to Dr. Yandry Alfonso Chang, Director of Medical Assistance and Medicines of the General Health Directorate, cited by the Cuban News Agency (ACN)it was expected to register in the next few hours to seven of the nine minors due to its favorable evolution.
A child will continue to be admitted by “a dirty wound on the scalp” treated with antibiotics, and the adolescent surgically intervened will remain hospitalized for clinical observation.
In the case of adults, two critical patients continue with ventilation and spent the stable night, while a patient with severe trauma remains stable, according to the same medical source cited by ACN.
The update of the CMHW provincial broadcaster of 3:00 pm on Monday accurate that 49 people received medical attention (40 adults and nine minors). Five people had been operated, including a 16 -year -old teenager. Two adults were in critical condition, with danger to life but stable – one with a thorax trauma – and a patient had been seriously reported by head trauma.
About The incidentLieutenant Colonel Heriberto López, head of the Provincial Transit Unit, informed the official media that there were no deaths and that the incident occurred two kilometers from the Popular Esperanza Council, on the Central Highway (KM 288), with a Yutong Omnibus (Chapa 121284), a Muenda Diana (027011) and a carton of horses involved.
The Yutong “was going to collect the turn of Pharmacuba workers, in Esperanza” when it hit the Diana, who was traveling from San Juan to Santa Clara. The Interior Ministry investigates the causes of the accident.
The two buses, popularly known as “The Guagua of San Juan” and “The Guagua of the sick,” collided frontally. Residents described the impact as “devastating.”
