Families of wounded by explosion of concord spend hours in uncertainty

Erick Acevedo Romero’s relative, who was driving a minibus from Route 14 to the whereabouts of Santa Martha, told Political expansion That at the time of the overturn of the pipe, the unity of his relative and his passengers were trapped, first by the gas column and later by the flames.

After several minutes of staying outside the General Hospital of Iztapalapa, the doctors told him that the minibus driver was transferred to the José María Morelos y Pavón del Issste hospital, located in the municipality of Los Reyes de la Paz, State of Mexico.

“They tell us that my relative is there, to see if there is there, because they bring us from one side to the other,” said the family.

A dozen acquaintances of this person began to organize to draw the route to arrive and board their vehicles and go to the kings.

Without offering further details, since they also had no information, elements of the Mexico City Police who guarded access to the emergency zone of the Iztapalapa Hospital, announced to some people who asked for affected by the explosion that an unidentified woman was unidentified was transferred to the National Institute of Air Rehabilitation and a minor to the Pediatric Hospital of Tacubaya, which struck the uncertainty of those who were there.

While the chaos prevailed outside the Juan Ramón de la Fuente hospital, ambulances of different dependencies, capital and federal, as well as private, entered and left the emergency zone, without more information about income or transfers to other hospitals.

Inhabitants of Iztapalapa are solidarity

According to capital authorities, 12 injured by the explosion were transferred to the General Hospital of Iztapala, and before the arrival of several relatives and acquaintances of the victims, some inhabitants of this demarcation sympathized with those affected and offered support.

This is the case of Esmeralda Juárez Medina, who learned of the emergency through the news and social networks, so he decided to go to a self -service store to buy water bottles to distribute them among those who lived the uncertainty for knowing information about their relatives.

“I like to share and help people, I work far away, I live here, my mother was worried because I passed by (La Concordia),” said Daniel Alberto Montoya, who is also a resident of Iztapalapa and offered relatives of injured support in medicines, healing material, transfers in ambulance with his resources, as well as coffee and bread.

“Count with me, I am only a citizen here from Iztapalapa, I dedicate myself to making donations with my own resources, have the resource, I provide them with all my heart,” he said out loud.

As the hours passed, more people arrived to distribute cookies, coffee, water and sandwiches.

After 7 pm on Wednesday, the head of government, Clara Brugada, updated the number of injured to 70, 13 of them located in the Juan Ramón de la Fuente hospital and most already channeled to other hospitals for their specialized care.