SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- A six-year-old boy, resident in Baracoahad to be transferred urgently, by air, to the “Octavio de la Concepción y la Pedraja” General Teaching Hospital in that territory and later to the Southern Pediatric Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, after being seriously injured, according to the official media. Cubadebate.
Yodelmis Furones Matos was injured after a tree hit the roof of his home in the early morning hours. The accident caused a head injury, leaving him unconscious, the regime’s official media reported.
The authorities had to transport him by helicopter because the land routes are practically cut off after the La Farola viaduct, which links Baracoa with the rest of the Guantanamo territory, was left inaccessible due to the damage left by the passage of hurricane – later tropical storm – Oscar.
Guantánamo, hit by the meteorological phenomenon, experienced multiple damages to homes and hospitals and several deaths due to the lack of information among residents who had been without electricity service for several days.
The head of the Operations Department of the Civil Defense General Staff, reported in the Round Table that the deceased are from the municipality of San Antonio del Sur, where Oscar caused severe damage as it passed through the east. Cuban.
A multidisciplinary team of health professionals together with the Revolutionary Air Force today guaranteed the successful transfer of a pediatric patient with traumatic brain injury, from the municipality of Baracoa, Guantánamo, a province affected after the passage of Hurricane Oscar. pic.twitter.com/jRKIM7Bw2V
— Ministry of Public Health of Cuba (@MINSAPCuba) October 22, 2024
Among the victims are three older adults over 80 years old, two people between 30 and 40 years old and a five-year-old child. The deceased were identified as: Francisco Colombia Matos, 92 years old; Esmeraldo Noa Fiffe, 82 years old; Antolino Areas Domínguez, 84 years old; Alexander Saben Matos, 42 years old; Irianni Labañino Domínguez, 31 years old; Liz Andis Elías Labañino, five years old.
Although authorities have not specified the causes of death, images shared on social networks suggest that the victims could have died from drowning due to intense flooding in the region.
Miguel Díaz-Canel, when reporting the deaths, said: “It must be said that the municipalities of San Antonio and Imías have been hit hard by this event. “Flood levels that had not historically been documented in these two areas have even been recorded.”
The tropical storm oscar has left behind a trail of destruction. The authorities Cuban They estimate that more than 1,000 homes suffered damage of varying magnitude in Guantánamo.
According to what was revealed on the social networks of the Presidency of Cuba after a “check-up meeting” in which the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel participated, the greatest effects are in the municipalities of Baracoa, Imías, Maisí, where major damage occurred. floods.
“Covered crop houses, homes, workplaces, power lines, and plantations have suffered damage caused by Oscar’s heavy rains and winds,” local media announced.
