Two victims of an attack in Maranhão will receive treatment outside the state.
Two of the four victims of the bus fire in São Luís (MA), last Friday (3), will receive medical treatment in other states; Juliane Carvalho Santos, 22 years old, should be transferred to Brasília (DF) this Thursday (9); Marcio Ronny da Cruz, 37 years old, was admitted yesterday (8) to the Burn Reference Center of the General Hospital of Goiânia (HGG), in Goiás; criminal attacks were a reaction to the measures adopted to combat crime in the prison units of the capital of Maranhão, which, since October 2013, have been guarded by men from the National Force and the PM
Alex Rodrigues
Reporter from Agência Brasil
Brasilia – Two of the four victims of the bus fire in São Luís (MA), last Friday (3), will receive medical treatment in other units of the Federation. Juliane Carvalho Santos, 22 years old, should be transferred to Brasília (DF) later today (9). Marcio Ronny da Cruz, 37 years old, was admitted yesterday (8) to the Burn Reference Center of the General Hospital of Goiânia (HGG), in Goiás.
Juliane is the mother of girls Ana Clara Santos Sousa, 6 years old, and Lorane Beatriz Santos, 1 year and 5 months old. Ana Clara suffered burns to 95% of her body and died this Monday (6). Lorane suffered burns to 20% of her body, mainly her legs and left arm, and had to be hospitalized at the Juvência Matos State Children's Hospital, in São Luis. According to the Maranhão Health Department, Lorane is doing well and should be discharged soon.
According to the state health department, Juliane, who suffered burns to 40% of her body, does not need to be transferred to Brasília, as her condition is stable. The transfer, according to the department, was requested by the patient's family, as she has relatives in the federal capital. Juliane will be transported aboard an air ambulance that the state government rented from a company in Goiânia and will be admitted to the Burn Unit of the North Wing Regional Hospital (Hran). She is expected to arrive in Brasília around 23 PM tonight.
The fourth victim who remains under medical care, Abynancy Silva Santos, 35 years old, continues to be hospitalized at the Tarquínio Lopes Filho Reference Hospital in São Luís. Her condition is also stable. With 10% of her body burned, she continues to undergo surgical dressings.
According to authorities in Maranhão, the criminal attacks were a reaction to measures adopted to combat crime in the capital's prisons, which, since October 2013, have been guarded by members of the National Force and the Military Police. Furthermore, according to Maranhão authorities, the attacks on buses and police stations in São Luís were ordered by criminals detained in the Pedrinhas Penitentiary Complex, the largest in the state.
The lack of security and infrastructural problems in Maranhão's prisons have been a source of concern for experts for years, and were the subject of analysis by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on the Prison System of the Chamber of Deputies between 2007 and 2008.
The problem resurfaced in October 2013, when a riot at the Pedrinhas prison complex left nine dead and several injured. Despite the presence of the National Force and the Military Police, two deaths were recorded in Pedrinhas in the first days of the year. According to the National Council of Justice (CNJ), 60 prisoners were murdered inside prison units last year.