A massive accident occurred in Guantánamo when a truck that was climbing the famous Loma del Jobo, in the Imías municipality, lost control and overturned completely. There were 17 people involved in the event, including a 15-year-old minor and a seven-week pregnant woman with cervical trauma.
According to Dr. Danyelis Romero, on duty at the local polyclinic, 14 patients were transferred to the Agustinho Neto and Pedro Agustín Pérez hospitals. “Among the injured, four have been classified as “code red”, ten as “code yellow” and three as “code green”, said the specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine.
“The SIUM service and the Red Cross managed to quickly transfer the patients so that they could be treated in the hospital entities.” This is how the journalist Miguel Reyes commented on his Facebook profile. It was also known that the immediate solution for the transfer of patients was to use a bus converted into an ambulance, equipped with two stretchers.
Traffic accidents are repeated
Traffic accidents have been repeated in recent months in the easternmost province of Cuba. Let’s remember that at the end of March another truck overturned and six people were injured.
This event occurred when the vehicle, reconditioned as a bus, was transporting students from the Félix Ruenes Pre-University, the Félix Varela Pedagogical School and the Technical-Professional Education. The outcome of that accident could have been worse, but it took place after the first collection point. That was the moment when the bus plunged down the right side of the road. The vehicle ended up overturned on the side of the road in the rural town of El Recreo.
The same thing happened last December. An accident left two people dead after the collision of a motorcycle with a car on the hill of La Herradura.
