translated from Spanish: Deputy Silber (DC) serves as the Administration and the Ministry of sport by death of runner in the marathon of Santiago

Following confirmation that the defibrillator arrived late to give first aid to the runner who died in the marathon of Santiago, Claudio Agurto, Deputy DC Gabriel Silber wrote to the Intendencia Metropolitana de s. litana and the Ministry of sports to know safety measures is demanded for the sporting event and if these were controlled prior to their development.
In this regard, the Deputy Silber lamented the death of Claudio Agurto corridor and raised concern the conditions of security of the marathon. “We know that such regrettable situations as they occur, what concerns us is that according to the information we have received, the ambulance would not counted with the necessary equipment to assist the broker at the time suffered unemployment cardiorespiratory”.
Following this, the parliamentary officiated the metropolitan municipality and the Ministry of the sport, pointing out that “Indeed, officiating at the Administration because we want to know if set all the rules and that all safety standards in advance the” international marathons want to safeguard the health of competitors, if it is that you fiscalizó compliance and what resources were committed to adopt these security and part of the organizing company emergency measures during the event”.
In addition, Silber said “We also officiating the Ministry of sport to act as sponsor of the Santiago Marathon, we want to know if the Ministry puts the name alone or also provides resources for the development of this sporting event and effectively they have some oversight of security role”.
Finally, the honourable Member said “it is vital to know what type of control you have of these events, we do not want to repeat as regrettable as the Sunday of situations, the heat wave could be one factor that led to nine more people fall hospitalized, but in” an event of this category must be given all the conditions to protect the health and life of the runners, especially thinking about profits leave the marathon to the organizing company”.

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