The last of the survivors of the electric shock that last Monday injured seven people in the municipality holguinero de Moa was discharged this Thursday. She received medical care at the Guillermo Luis Hospital in that town.
The report did not reveal his identity. Meanwhile, Dr. Manuel Galbán, director of the institution, accurate to the Cuban News Agency (ACN) that “the patients treated in the internal medicine service evolved satisfactorily”.
“The injured received the protocols established for this type of accident, although the specialists regretted the death of a patient, the product of cardiac arrest.”
He event occurred on May 29, around four o’clock in the afternoon, when a group of workers from the Nickel Union Services Company (ESUNI) was struck by lightning while they were waiting for the worker transport.
The fatal victim, Dunielquis Fonseca Borges, received first aid, but went into unemployment upon arrival at the local Hospital and died in the Intensive Care Room after applying various resuscitation techniques, ACN specifies.
Electric shocks are the first cause of death due to natural phenomena in Cuba and between 1987 and 2017 an annual average of 54 people died from this cause, with the highest incidence in the territories of Granma, Holguín, Camagüey and Santiago de Cuba.