Minutes of panic lived by patients and workers of the SAPU Videla from the city IquiqueTarapaca Region, after a group will enter armed to the health care facility on the evening of this Tuesday.
According to the first information, this event, recorded around 8:00 p.m., occurred when at least eight subjects entered the SAPU with the intention of finding a patient who was being treatedfor reasons that are still unknown.
Due to this situation, a large police operation was generated in the compound, achieving, in a preliminary way, the arrest of a possible person involved in this act.
Also, care had to be suspended while this procedure was performedso that patients who go to the facility are redirected to other care centers in the area.
NOW IN TARAPACÁ???? People who arrive at the Sapu Videla are not receiving medical attention after the Carabineros operation inside @Cooperative
(VIDEO: Hans Gotterbarm / #CooperativaRegiones) #Iquique #AltoHospice pic.twitter.com/Gn13WpMi88
— Hans Gotterbarm (@hansgotterbarm) January 10, 2023
“The story is that they were armed, that they were looking for a person and that generated a whole issue in the office. The attentions had to be suspended, the police officers carry out the corresponding procedures and we as a municipality -with the health team. generate contention with professionals in the area and suspend attention“, informed the mayor of Iquique, Mauricio Soria.
In any case, the communal chief reported that “the team has decided to continue its work in the shift that is an emergency nightand once the containment is over they return to work normally”.
“They are going to have compromised police patrols that are going to be visiting them throughout the night“, he pointed out.
NOW IN TARAPACÁ ???? Mayor of Iquique, Mauricio Soria, refers to the fact that affected the Sapu Videla where subjects entered armed looking for a person: attention was suspended to contain the staff @Cooperative
(VIDEO: Hans Gotterbarm / #CooperativaRegiones) pic.twitter.com/vegVZ2UMoG
— Hans Gotterbarm (@hansgotterbarm) January 11, 2023
At the moment, the uniformed police have not provided official information about this fact.