2023-05-14 21:33:45
Three young Argentines were attacked with machetes on Friday in the town of Villa de Tututepec, on the Mexican Pacific coast. Benjamin Gamond, a 23-year-old from Cordoba, was one of the most affected, and He remains hospitalized in serious condition.
As reported by the family today, due to his skull fracture he was transferred in a medical helicopter to Mexico City. In addition, they detailed that their state “it is still serious”.
Benjamin needs special attention such as a neurosurgeon and a blood bank, benefits that the health center that received him at the beginning did not have. That is why he had launched a collection to raise the necessary funds to guarantee the transfer.
The details of the machete attack on a young Argentine in Mexico
The violent episode occurred while they were having lunch at a beach restaurant and were approached by the stranger who, without saying a word, attacked them with a machete. Benjamin’s friend, Santiago Lastra (22) and his girlfriend Macarena González (29), also suffered serious injuries.
“For no reason and behind the back”as defined by Facundo Gamond through a publication on social networks.
And along the same lines, “The worst part was taken by my brother. He received two machete blows to the head, with loss of brain mass. He has a compromised eye and the most serious thing was the amount of blood he lost, between the fact that they were attacked and the ambulance arrived to make the transfer. He spent quite some time, went into hypovolemic shock and went into critical condition, with multiple transfusions”, he recounted.
“Benja continues to fight her. He is in critical condition and in the next few hours he has to undergo surgery for a neurosurgeon to stabilize it”, he added in an Instagram story this Sunday.
In an Instagram story, Marcos -his other brother- tried yesterday to calm down and assured that there is a “slight improvement” despite the fact that “the clinical state is still quite complex.” And he explained that he is in contact with himForeign Ministry to see the possibility of transferring him on a medical flight to Argentina.
Benjamin is the youngest of eight siblings and, for a few months, he was working in Mexico. He had gone for a walk to the town of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, with his friend -also a native of Córdoba- and his girlfriend -born in Necochea- when they suffered the brutal attack.
The Gamond family asked for collaboration to cover the expenses
One of Gamond’s brothers, Marcos, He is a doctor at the Heller Hospital in Neuquén and through social networks, he asked the population for collaboration to be able to cover the expenses of the hospitalization, as well as the trip to accompany him in Mexico.
“This is an urgent call to help us to be with him, please if you can help us with anything, we will thank you”he stated in a video that quickly began to circulate on WhatsApp.
Anyone interested in collaborating and contributing in some way to the situation can do so by sending money to the alias facu.gamond or by Wise to [email protected].
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