Child dies from extreme cold/pneumonia in Central Road closure

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Child dies from extreme cold/pneumonia in Central Road closure
February 23, 2011

LIMA | The bitter cold that is recorded in the city of La Oroya has claimed its first victim. This is a 5 year old boy who died of pneumonia this morning and could not be helped in time due to the blockade of the Central Highway Ticlio sector.

The lowest William Alvarez Palomino, who was traveling with his mother Maria Palomino Ruiz in the company bus to Lima Lobato Pichanaki felt the ravages of the low temperatures in the absence of heating of the vehicle.

When his family tried to take the health center Morocha district to help him, the little died on the journey. The doctor diagnosed Cesar Gonzales hypothermia as the cause of his death.

As we know, due to snow and fog restricted vehicles pass and back to Lima on the Central Highway from 22:00 pm yesterday in order to avoid accidents. However, that hindered the immediate attention of the child.

For now, the Police opened traffic on the central line, but narrowly

 

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Re: Child dies from extreme cold/pneumonia in Central Road closure

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4 year old boy dies of pneumonia in Ticlio to spend the night on the motorway blocked


Landslides isolated from Central Road Monday afternoon
A child of only four years old died because they can not withstand the intense cold of the night to get stuck the vehicle he was traveling with her parents to the Central Sierra at Ticlio, a product that the road had been blocked by snow from two in the afternoon of Tuesday and heavy rain in the mountains of Lima.

The child identified as William Alvarez Palomino (4), died while being transferred by their parents in the morning to the hospital health of La Oroya, where he arrived only to certify his death.
The medical center's doctors confirmed the boy was hit by an acute case of pneumonia due to the intense cold caused by the snow that hit the area on Wednesday morning to more than 3.500 meters above sea level.
The child was dead at the hospital at approximately 08:45 hours, so doctors were limited only to certify his death from hypothermia, police said.
Because from 2 pm on Tuesday, the road was blocked and did not allow the passage of both sides, a long line of passenger buses and trucks had to spend the night in the place restored while the partially through the afternoon Wednesday.
For their part, interprovincial transport companies suspended output buses in central Peru, while traffic has not been completely restored to the height of 132 km in the province of Huarochiri Lima.
The child accompanied her mother back to the city of Lima from Satipo (Jun?n). The child was taken to the nearest hospital EsSalud, but doctors certified his death only as a result of suffocation by his own vomit, told RPP News the passenger Rosa N??ez.
As recalled, about 800 vehicles remained stranded in the area at five in the morning. The traffic was restored gradually after eight hours.
On the other hand, the station reported Ticlio snow, accompanied by rain, began about 14:00 pm yesterday and lasted until midnight, blocking the road and leaving more than 300 vehicles stranded on both sides of the road linking the central highlands and jungle to Lima.