Africa-Press – Cape verde. The survivors of the pirogue rescued off the coast of the island of Sal, on Tuesday, 15th, are properly accompanied and well assisted at all levels, assured this Friday, 18th, the Health delegate on the island. One of them inspires more care and should be treated at the Hospital Agostinho Neto, in the city of Praia.
Received at the Ramiro Figueira school, in Espargos, of the 38 survivors, seven are still hospitalized, one of them in a more complicated condition, with kidney problems, according to the doctor and health delegate José Rui Moreira.
“The remaining 31 migrants are at the Ramiro Figueira School, quite stable, from time to time with one or another symptom derived from all this calamity they have gone through, but being constantly evaluated and sent to the hospital for more in-depth examinations”, guaranteed the official. , in statements to Inforpress.
Of the group of survivors, he said, some are more excited than others, because they went through bad times, drank sea water, ate seaweed, in order to survive.
Meals are prepared in the 2nd Military Region (Armed Forces of Cape Verde), light foods, also fruit and plenty of water, with assistance from the Red Cross of Cape Verde and help from the population.
Bodies await translation
As for the seven corpses, the same source informed that they remain in a cold chamber, awaiting the transfer process to their country.
“Today we were, together with the Judiciary Police, collecting data for identification issues”, he informed.
Remember that the pirogue was found 150 miles northeast of the island of Sal, by a fishing boat flying the Spanish flag. It contained seven corpses and 38 survivors, out of a total of 101 migrants who, according to the authorities, left Senegal. It is estimated that the remaining 56 migrants will have died during the journey to the northeast of the island of Sal, Cape Verde.
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