Ecuador: Increasing security concerns at Manta hospital emergency rooms

Posted on July 31, 2012 • Filed under: Crime, Ecuador, Latin America Health

Elcomercio.com reported this is the scenario in the health centers in Manta. The people who work there say that violence changed the routine and had not previously similar operating. Two weeks ago, about 10 bikes with agents surrounded a nursing home. They came because the doctors announced they had reached a taxi driver shot in the legs and wanted to avoid excesses. “With the receipt of the police can work with some comfort,” says a doctor. image A week ago, another 22 officers arrived on motorcycles and patrol cars to the emergency room of another nursing home. A man shot in the stomach was taken there. The doctors said that he and his friends were ‘problematic’. Asked why the presence of police officers. Read Article

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