What happened?
This Friday, the Army referred to the health status of the conscripts of the Motorized Brigade No. 24 “Huamachuco” of the VI Division in the commune of Putre, in the region of Arica and Parinacota, where a young 19-year-old soldier died. after suffering a respiratory infection.
The general director of the Military Hospital of Santiago, Brigadier General Francisco Silvastated that they are “very happy“due to the evolution of the emergency that caused conscripts to be hospitalized, also due to an infectious respiratory condition.
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What did the director of the Military Hospital say about the emergency of the conscripts in Putre?
Regarding whether the respiratory symptoms could have had any relationship with the low temperatures to which they were exposed, Silva stressed that “that is part of the research that is being carried out. I cannot answer a question that way. We are in an initial phase, we are worried about giving him the treatments, solving the problems.”
“The only thing I can tell you is that we are very happy that The emergency that we have faced as an Army is in clear regression“, he asserted, generating controversy due to the happy accounts following an event in which a conscript died.
“Of a total of 50 patients with respiratory symptoms, today we only have 22 left of which three are in the Military Hospital, one in the Juan Noé Hospital in Arica and 18 who are in this isolation phase in the Fontecilla Barracks,” he added.
Feeding of the conscripts
The director of the Military Hospital was asked if there was poor nutrition among the soldiers, to which he responded that “the nutrition for the 250 men is of the same characteristic, there is no different diet. I don’t know what they ate, but it is the ranch that is stipulated regarding the instruction period.”
Regarding what they generally consume, he pointed out that “there is a diet that is prepared in a balanced way by nutritionists, foods of different types.”
Did the Putre conscripts consume well water?
The general was asked if he can rule out that the soldiers have consumed raw meat and well waterto which he responded: “clearly, if we had a digestive type outbreak we would have found it in a large number of soldiers, and the only thing we found was respiratory symptoms.”
When the consultation was reiterated, he indicated that “I want to give you peace of mind that from the first minute we had this emergency we contacted the local health organizations.”
“Seremi was informed, who immediately ordered microbiological controls on both the food and drinking water that were being given to military personnel, and that was ruled out from the first minute by the local Seremi,” he stated.
Patients with septic shock
He also specified that “the first microbiological analyzes showed that the germ that was strongly attacking us was the influenza A H3 virus, and in the case of one of the soldiers who were most seriously ill, it was Escherichia coli bacteria“.
“It should be noted that of a total of 50 symptomatic patients, there are currently only 22. I want to convey peace of mind to the entire community that in the face of this outbreak, this serious situation that we have faced as an Army, we see that the emergency is in decline. . We have not had any more serious cases“, reported the authority.
Furthermore, he assured that “so far there has not been any amputation”, discarding some information that had emerged. However, he specified that two serious patients experienced septic shockwhich could mean a risk for eventual amputation.
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