translated from Spanish: Strikers present health concerns, but they are stable

Guasave, Sinaloa.-Stable, but already with affections to his health as dehydration, problems in the pressure and muscle aches, is as are the unionists who started hunger strike last Monday in demand of payment of their wages and Benefits. Another one of them had to leave the fight on Wednesday night, adding four in total those who have retired for health problems, said the leader of the unionized workers. Affectations
Valeria Martínez Marmolejo, Doctor of the Municipal Health Directorate, who has been monitoring the health of the protesters, reported that two of those who still remain have already presented problems of dehydration, so they were given the necessary attention. He added that it is from the third day without eating food when the symptoms of health effects begin to be noticed. ” From the third day it is when they begin to notice the affectations, and they already have four; They have had pressure problems, two of them had to be channeled by dehydration, all have been given oral serum, in addition to other medications for low back pain that have manifested by sleeping on the ground. ” Martínez Marmolejo explained that although the protesters are hydrating, they are not doing it in the usual way, and in the face of the high temperatures that are being presented and the lack of food, the most serious thing that they could present is a renal failure.

“We know that they are hydrating, but not as they should do, and less in those conditions for the weather, and to continue, the most serious thing that could present is a kidney failure, by the same dehydration, but we are monitoring and so far none of them He’s in those conditions. ” For his part, Roberto Acosta Quevedo, leader of the union members of the Jumapag, said that they already begin to feel muscular aches and problems in the pressure, but that they feel still in conditions to remain in the fight. No negotiation
Acosta Quevedo noted that the deposit of two fortnights only for retirees is not the solution to the problem, because the proposal they made was the payment of three fortnights, but for all unionized, active and retired.
What happens is that at the end of the day the manager did what he wanted, the manager of a principle said he had a million pesos and that resource is practically something that does not come to solve even to enter into a negotiating topic. ”

The union leader added that they are only asking for a third of the debt that is maintained with the union members in an effort not to force what cannot be done, but stressed that what was done on Wednesday does not solve anything. He added that there has not been a new approach to negotiating and that they are still waiting for a favorable response to their proposal.

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