translated from Spanish: Ministry of Health in 194 in cases of eye injuries

Health Minister Jaime Mañalich unveiled the balance of people who have been injured in the social demonstrations of recent weeks. In this sense, based on emergency care since 18 October, there has been an increase of almost “11 thousand emergency services consultations for different reasons. This is what we can establish linked to the violence developed during this period,” said the portfolio holder. On the other hand, he argued that so far 104 people remain hospitalized “and the total deaths, i.e. people who entered alive in a hospital compound and died as a result of their injuries in the following days despite all the efforts of the there are six people, three of them in the Metropolitan Region and three in regions.” In these cases, three patients died from “severe head trauma and another three from firearm-related injuries,” he added. Mañalich also alluded to eye injuries, where from the beginning of the demonstrations to today, 194 people are recorded cases of which “unfortunately to this day twelve had loss of an eyeball”, while 36 other people will be assessed within a timeframe that “cannot be less than three months to see if these eyeballs evolve into a partial recovery of vision.” On mental health, the head of the portfolioer insisted that “we have had an increase in mental health consultations, a double increase in request for sedative or antidepressant medications.” He further stated that “what we have experienced from a health point of view is a tremendous disgrace. We have lost lives, we have lost visual capacity, we have disabled people who had all their lives ahead of them,” he said.

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