MIAMI, United States. — Luis Miguel Bartoló Tamayo, driver and paramedic of the ambulance that was attacked this Thursday by a police officer in the city of Guantánamo, is in stable critical condition at Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto.
In statements collected by the provincial newspaper overcomeDr. Luis Alberto Ramírez Díaz, surgical deputy director of that hospital, indicated that the patient had facial edema and an unstable nasal fracture that caused bleeding, but that he remains hemodynamically stable.
The last report reported that Bartoló Tamayo remained intubated in the Intensive Care services.
“If his evolution is maintained in a favorable way, in the next few hours he must be extubated, and the process of waking him up will begin to evaluate his reactions in a general way,” explained the doctor, who also specified that the projectile did not affect the internal organs of the paramedic.
Luis Miguel Bartoló Tamayo received a gunshot wound this Thursday when a motorized police officer in civilian clothes shot at an ambulance in which he and the doctor were Damixi Rodriguez Dominguezhead of the Intensive Care Services of the municipal polyclinic, who, supposedly, had been a partner of the attacker.
Rodríguez Domínguez received two bullet wounds to the head and did not respond to resuscitation and intubation, making it impossible to save her, according to reports.
The policeman who perpetrated the crime, who had been chasing the ambulance since it left the municipality of El Salvador, was arrested hours after it and taken to the Guantánamo Criminal Operations center.
The unfortunate event occurred on Paseo street, in the provincial capital, and has been classified as the first femicide registered in Cuba in 2023.
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