07/21/2021 13:09
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 07/21/2021 1:09 PM
A tragic episode was known this Wednesday at the Bariloche Regional Private Hospital, where a man hospitalized for coronavirus threw himself from a second floor to try to escape and lost his life.
The
39-year-old
victim, a
native of the city of Ingeniero Jacobacci, had been staying at the medical center in the center of the city of Rio Negro since Monday after testing positive for COVID when he
tried to escape
the controls.
According to the local media
El Cordillerano
, the patient had been experiencing a withdrawal syndrome due to his
addiction to alcohol.
Police sources reported that the fall occurred around eight in the morning from the second floor of the health center, in an interior courtyard of the building.
The doctors attended him urgently, but he died a few minutes later as a result of serious injuries.
Members of the 2nd Police Station, personnel from the Criminalistics Cabinet and the Office of the Public Prosecutor arrived at the scene to initiate the investigations to establish the circumstances of the death.
In the daily report released this Tuesday by the Ministry of Health, five people lost their lives as a result of covid in the province and the total number rose to 2,154.
Meanwhile, the new cases registered throughout the provincial territory were 276: 36 of them in San Carlos de Bariloche.
In addition, there were 210 people who were discharged so the province has 3,000 active cases.
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