Chef Ljubomir Stanisic, one of the faces of the “A Pão e Água” movement and who had been on a hunger strike for six days in front of the parliament, was this Wednesday transported to the Hospital de Santa Maria, in Lisbon.
The information was confirmed to the Lusa agency by José Gouveia, one of the protesters who is also on a hunger strike, who said that Ljubomir had been transported to a hospital unit earlier in the evening. The protester said that the issue was “blood sugar levels”, not only for Ljubomir, but also for the rest of the people who are participating in this protest.
Questioned by Lusa, an INEM source confirmed the team deployed “in a preventive way” to “assess the possible need for psychological care demonstrators” detected “a demonstrator with signs and symptoms that deserved urgent medical evaluation”.
An ambulance and an Emergency Medical and Resuscitation Vehicle (VMER) were mobilized for evaluation, assistance and transport to the hospital unit “, continued the same source, adding that the demonstrator was transported to the Hospital de Santa Maria, in Lisbon. However, the source did not confirm the identity of the person being transported.
The group consists of eight men and a woman and has been on a hunger strike for six days. The group is camped, in improvised facilities with tents and heaters, on a hunger strike until the Government receives them to find solutions for their businesses, which they say are going to ruin.
Last week, the Government announced measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic for the new period of state of emergency: on the eve of the holidays, commerce closes at 3 pm in 127 continent counties classified as at risk “extremely high” and “very high” and the closing hours of shops are kept at 10 pm and of restaurants and cultural facilities at 10:30 pm in these counties and in another 86 considered “high risk”.
On the 14th of this month, the Minister of Economy said that the exceptional support to restaurants in the municipalities covered by the state of emergency to compensate for the lost revenue in these two weekends will light up to 25 million euros and will be paid in December.
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