SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- A child six years old, resident in Baracoaseriously injured after a tree fell on the roof of his home during Hurricane Oscar, continues with a reserved prognosis, according to the official media. Cuban News Agency (ACN).
Yodelmis Furones Matos is in a “critical stable” condition and is at the Antonio María Béguez Sur Children’s Hospital in Santiago de Cuba.
Jesús Cabrera, director of the hospital, told ACN that the child remains on mechanical ventilation since he underwent surgery on the afternoon of October 22 for a skull fracture.
Due to his condition, and depending on his response to treatment, they plan to implement enteral feeding through a nasogastric tube.
They also pointed out that they monitor the wound and reinforce the suture to prevent fluid leakage. The little boy’s parents, evacuated with him, are evaluated by medical personnel to detect possible damage.
Yodelmis had to be urgently transferred this Tuesday, by air, to the “Octavio de la Concepción y la Pedraja” General Teaching Hospital in that territory and later to the Pediátrico Sur, in Santiago de Cuba, after being seriously injured.
The impact of the tree on the roof of his home caused head trauma, leaving him unconscious.
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, so far, seven deaths due to the lack of information among residents who had been without electricity service for several days.
As justified by the deputy prime minister of CubaInés María Chapman, the event occurred “practically at dawn” and was parked between Imías and San Antonio el Sur, a low place, surrounded by mountains.
The absence of a prevention protocol by the Civil Defense has been pointed out by the Cubans who suffered on site the impact of the meteorological phenomenon or that they are searching for their relatives, missing since last October 20, when Oscar made landfall.
A Cuban resident in San Antonio del Sur, complained to the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel that he was in charge of 29 children in the Special School during the passing of Oscar in their area and no one came to rescue them, as revealed in a video published by the media Martí News.
“They left us alone there, 29 children. I had to evacuate the children, we almost couldn’t,” said the man from Guantanamo from one of the areas affected by Oscar.
