2023-10-25 22:49:04
By Alina Navarrete / Correspondent
Guerrero.- The passage of the hurricane “Otis“by Guerrero would have caused the death of at least 16 hospital patients Vicente Guerrerolocated in Acapulco.
According to a doctor on duty at the hospital, the deceased could not receive the required medical attention because the place lost power.
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The general director of Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoe Robledoreported that they will attend to the emergency at the hospital, however, they did not offer information on deaths due to lack of medical attention.
“Otis“It also left floods, damage to hotels and homes, power outages and collapses on main roads. Guerrero. It was expected that its impact would occur in the early hours of this Wednesday, however, the hurricane made landfall at approximately 11:30 p.m. yesterday.
Robledo He stated that communication has not been recovered in Acapulco and ruled out damage, so far, in the institute’s units in Ciudad Altamirano and in the capital Chilpancingo..
In his message from the Virtual Emergency and Disaster Operations Center of the IMSS, Zoe Robledoindicated that he is in contact with the National Coordination of Civil protection and that they will send a group of doctors and nurses to the most affected areas such as Acapulco.
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“We are sending a response group with doctors nurses who have had extensive experience in disasters natural not only in our country, throughout the world, they were recently in Haiti,” he declared.
For its part, this Wednesday the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reported that Hurricane “Otis” in Guerrero left 504,434 users without electricity and so far the service supply has been restored to 40% of the users. affected.
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