Six hospitals in Bajo Cauca ran out of oxygen due to blockages due to the miners’ strike

The miners’ strike in the Lower Caucawho has already completed two weeks, has at least six hospitals in the region fishing oxygen supplydue to blockages.

This was announced by health personnel on the night of Sunday March 12, after the they ended reservations of this and other medical supplies.

And it is that, despite the presence of 10 thousand men of the Armed Forces in the region, to date (03/13/2023) the West Trunkwhich not only connects Cáceres to Tarazá, but also the Bajo Cauca sub-region to the Caribbean coast.

Thus, the vehicles responsible for transporting oxygen cylinders have not been able to supply the hospitals in this region in recent days, which, added to the drug shortage He has the whole Bajo Cauca on red alert in the hospital.

“There is a shortage of medicines, medical-surgical equipment and oxygen, which is the most delicate situation in Bajo Cauca today. Today, there is no more bottled oxygen in any of the six hospitals in the sub-region,” he said in an interview with Radio Blue the director of the César Uribe Piedrahita hospital, originally from the Caucasus, Humberto Bernal.

But that’s not all, during the week of March 6 to 10, two ambulances were incinerated on the roads of the Bajo Cauca. One of them was carrying a pregnant woman, she had to be transferred after being diagnosed with preeclampsia.

The hooded men at the origin of these events, according to the president, would be young people that the gulf clan would have paid 80 thousand pesos to generate overflows on the highway, he will attack the army troops present in the area, intimidate medical personnel, keep the civilian population at home and destroy state property.

This has made it necessary to transfer only those who are in a critical situation air force helicopters to Rionegro and from there overland to Medellín, as happened recently with a woman and child.

Whereas, in towns like El Bagre, at least three pregnant women They couldn’t make it to the delivery roombecause hospitals do not have the necessary equipment to accommodate newborns.

The outrage and turmoil that doctors and patients share these days has led the doctor Carlos Valdiviesopresident of the Antioquia Medical Collegeto demand the cessation of hostilities against nurses, doctors and paramedics, so that patients, in the Caucasus and other municipalities of the Bajo Cauca, can receive timely care.

“Health professionals, we provide our service in a selfless and unconditional way in favor of the population. For this reason, any breach of our security sets a very serious precedent for any society. We call for respect for the life and integrity of all patients and members of the health team, and for their defense on the part of society, which receives the dedicated and diligent service of all the health teams of our department,” reads a statement issued by the organization, signed by Valdivieso.

However, at the end of the security Council which led the president to Montelibanosouth of Cordoba, national, departmental and municipal authorities have announced that the roads that connect this region to the rest of the country are already under state control and normal traffic, but still some obstacles continue to be overcome on the Troncal Occidente, between Cáceres and Tarazá.