10/15/2020 4:12 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 10/15/2020 4:12 PM
A doctor was wounded by two gunshots by a man at the door of the hospital in the Rio Negro city of Campo Grande.
Investigators are trying to determine if the attacker, still a fugitive,
is a relative of a person who died of coronavirus
, according to police sources.
The incident occurred at dawn on Wednesday morning, at the door of that health center and the victim was identified as
Alejandro Vega
, who was shot in the face and arm, and remained
admitted to the Cipolletti hospital out of danger
.
In the filming of the security cameras, it is seen when Vega gets out of an ambulance next to the door of the hospital.
When one of her companions
gets out
of the vehicle,
a hooded man runs up, shoots her, and quickly drives off
.
Incredibly, the doctor gets up immediately
.
According to investigators, the attacker would have waited for him in the parking lot.
He fired three bullets with a 22 caliber weapon, two of which hit him.
Brutal shooting attack on a doctor in Río Negro.
Video capture.
Some witnesses who testified before the investigators assured that the man who attacked the doctor would be "a relative of a person who had coronavirus and died."
The government of Río Negro expressed their support for the attacked doctor and expressed solidarity with the rest of the health employees.
The governor
Arabela Racing
and the provincial Minister of Health,
Fabián Zgaib, will visit the doctor and his relatives this afternoon.
Fabián Torres, doctor and colleague of the victim, assured in radio statements that he barely found out about the incident from the victim herself, who called him while he was being transferred in an ambulance.
"Last night around 12 o'clock Vega called me when he was already in the ambulance, telling me that they hit him three shots,
one in the jaw, another in the arm and the last one luckily did not hit his body
," Torres said, adding that the doctor "
is in good health, his life is not at risk
, but the issue here is the lack of security in our hospitals."
"We are here to protect, care for and heal the community, but it turns out that they come and can kill us like nothing else," said Torres, who announced that they will meet with provincial authorities to bring their claims closer.
Source: Télam.
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