translated from Spanish: Tomography gives hope to government intern who crashed

A CT scan gave new hope to the family of Pedro Lezama, the young fellow of the Young Building the Future program who was sent outside his area and stipulated work schedule to disassemble and distribute building material, and was pressed between dozens of sheets.
Doctors told their parents that their small intestine was dead and that no one could survive more than 48 hours. But Peter’s still alive 13 days later. 
“There was intestinal fluid. Probably not all of his small intestine was dead,” explained his father, Alejandro Lezama.
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Seeing the results of the study, a specialist in Intensive Therapy at the Hospital de Traumatology and Orthopedics of Lomas Verdes in the State of Mexico, where he is now hospitalized, requested to transfer him to The La Raza Medical Center, IMSS, for a new assessment, but the transfer was not authorized. 
Pedro is a fellow of the Young Building the Future Program. He was “training” at the City Council of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, where he lives. The young man is a graduate of the pedagogy career. Along with pursuing a master’s degree in educational administration on weekends, she enrolled in the program, three months after finishing college, in part to have money and be able to afford her studies.
I was supposed to only do administrative work. But on November 19, he was sent out of his area and stipulated work schedule to disassemble and then hand out foils, as part of a housing program. 
Peter and other young people, including his brother Alexander, also a fellow in the federal government’s flagship program, got in a truck, along with hundreds of pictures. As they passed a stop, they went over Peter. His abdominal cavity was injured. 
At Tuxtepec hospital, where he arrived first, he had cardiorespiratory arrest. But just seconds before doctors officially declared him dead, his father says, his heart beat again. The diagnosis, however, was not encouraging. Doctors told the family that, to live, Pedro would need a transplant of the entire small intestine, a procedure that has never been done. 
Despite everything, and against all odds, the young man was still alive, so they moved him from Tuxtepec to the Regional Hospital of High Specialty of Oaxaca. It was eight hours on the way. “We were told there was only a 20% chance he’d get here alive, but Pedro came,” said Angela Hernandez, the young man’s aunt. 
In that hospital the diagnosis was the same: intestinal necrosis. “Specialists told their parents that having him in intensive care represented an expense of 30,000 pesos a day on someone who had no chance of survival, who would better give him a dignified death and agree to disconnect him,” Ms. Angela said.
But Peter’s parents didn’t accept. A new transfer was planned, now to Naucalpan, State of Mexico, to the Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopedics of Lomas Verdes, another eight hours’ drive away. “The doctors told us,” his aunt recounted, “that as soon as he got out of the hospital, Peter could die. But Lomas Verdes also came.” 
There, the family ran into the same bad prognoses. “We were already very discouraged,” Said Mrs. Angela, “although we didn’t plan to give up, we were already discouraged when the news came: there was intestinal fluid. That means maybe a piece of his bowel isn’t dead and you could do a transplant of a piece, your dad’s willing to give it to him.” 
But a new assessment is needed at another multi-specialty hospital like La Raza, and not just with a focus on trauma like Lomas Verdes. 
“It was a specialist who asked for the transfer, not that we have thought of it, but in La Raza they refused to accept it. The director, Guillermo Careaga, tells us that the changes appreciated in the CT scan are inconclusive for the transfer and that there they would give him the same therapy that they are already giving him right now in Lomas Verdes,” explained Alejandro Lezama. 
What they ask the family to do is be patient. “The director tells me to wait, see how it continues to evolve to make a new assessment. But we don’t understand why, why they don’t do it at once.” 
Animal Político requested information from IMSS on the reasons for refusal of the transfer to La Raza, but the press area assured that it had already been explained to the family, and that there is a medical committee deal with the case. They are responsible for issuing the diagnosis, but peter alone parents can share it, they assured. 
“They gave us no more explanation than that, that the results of the CT scan don’t actually reflect many changes and that there are to wait. We haven’t heard from a medical committee. Today we only spoke to Dr. Careaga and a transplant specialist,” Pedro’s father said. 
This portal also requested information from the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS), a unit in charge of the Young Building the Future Program, on the actions taken to support the fellow’s family, both for the transfer and for what appropriates the case, as well as on the investigations to the Tuxtepec City Council where Pedro was training, but until the closing of this edition there was no response. 
“From the Secretariat we have only received calls, a lady came and said that she was coming to visit us the undersecretary and in charge of the program, Horacio Duarte, but he has not come, and the truth is that they have not helped us in the efforts, they disseminated in the means that are pending us, but they have not supported us.” 
In view of this, Pedro’s parents are calling for the intervention of the President of the Republic to speed up the efforts and for his son to have a new assessment in La Raza, by gastroenterology specialists and a multidisciplinary team. 
The family’s not giving up. “Let us insist on the transfer, that everything necessary is done. We will go to plant at the National Palace if necessary, so that President López Obrador can hear us. If Peter is struggling from his bed, if he has resisted so much, if he has so many dreams, he wanted to be a teacher of children, if he does not want to leave, we how we are going to surrender,” his aunt says.
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Original source in Spanish