AREQUIPA, Peru – The child six-year-old Yodelmis Furones Matos, resident in Baracoa and seriously injured after falling a tree on the roof of his home during Hurricane Oscar, he is recovering positively.
According to a report from the state Cubadebatethe little boy remains “with evident progress” in the Intensive Care Unit of the Dr. Antonio María Veguez César Children’s Hospital Sur, in Santiago de Cuba.
Dr. Zaida María León Castellanos, deputy surgical director of the institution, explains that he is stable, awake, conscious, oriented and feeding.
According to a medical report, so far there are no neurological or clinical complications.
Yodelmis had to be urgently transferred last Tuesday, by air, to the “Octavio de la Concepción y la Pedraja” General Teaching Hospital 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 roads were 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.
