Bandages, stains of blood on clothes, tears, faces full of anguish and calls for help requesting stretchers to admit the wounded was the panorama that was observed this Wednesday morning in the Emergency of the Hospital Traumatological Dario Contrerasin Santo Domingo Este.
The patients they arrived in ambulances of the 9-1-1 system and in own vehicles, whether two or four wheels.
About 15 people They were waiting to be attended to inside the hall waiting and more than 25 were outside waiting for a response on the condition of their family member or loved one. The flow of people It was constant.
“This was full an hour ago,” confessed a agent of security to Free Diary.
With a countenance worryJosé, who was providing moral support to some close friends, was waiting for good news near the door of the health center. According to his story, his relative’s son, just 22 years old, had an accident at 1:10 in the morning in the Los Frailes sector.
“That leg is broken, broken,” he said.
The young man was accompanied by a cousin, who will also have to undergo leg surgery. The indignation of the family It is because the driver of the vehicle that would have caused the crash only suffered minor scratches.
Right next door, a grandmother He was crying because his grandson ended up with both legs broken The woman could only articulate a few words and said that the young man “was driving a little bus” after 1:30 in the morning.
In the case of Franciscaa series of events escalated in severity. The young woman was having fun with her partner in Brisas del Este and, after the launch of a tear gas bomb, her boyfriend He fell, injuring himself between his lip and chin.
When they moved to Dario Contreras to seek assistance, mother and the sister of Franciscawho were going to accompany her in a motor, had a accidentaffecting both lower extremities.
“There’s one in a wheelchair and the other on the stretcher,” he commented while waiting for news since, as he said, he was inside, and hospital They sent her to wait outside.
At that moment, the roar of six motorcycles touching speakers surprised those present. In the group there was only one female member, in charge of guarding the gallon of wine, left over from a night that, at first glance, was clearly crazy.
As explained by one of the members of this group, the accident It happened when the tire of a motorcycle collided with the tire of his companion, causing him to lose his balance and the passenger behind him to fall on top of him, causing him to scrape his entire face and knee.
“We were already leaving; one for accompanying him,” said the young man after closing the night of revelry for New Year at 10:00 in the morning. The incident occurred in La Toronja, from Invivienda.
He doesn’t remember anything
Emilio Angela 20-year-old young man, was another of the motorcycle accident victims who received care at Darío Conteras.
When asked about how his sinister vial, he only responded: “I don’t remember anything.” The next question was whether he had ingested alcoholto which he replied: “Yes, a lot!”
Even though he accident It happened in the early morning, motherAdela received the call this morning.
“I had already advised him, I had prayed for him, so I was not surprised,” he said with great serenity.
Emilio He suffered a severe blow to his left cheekbone, scratches on his left arm and his foot on the same side was bandaged. Their father was on his way to take them back to the house.