Police stop truck with 33 oxygen cylinders in Manaus

Manaus – Police from the Ministry of Public Security (SSPAM) seized a truck with 33 oxygen cylinders this Thursday afternoon (01/14), in the Alvorada neighborhood, in the central-west area of ​​Manaus.

A 38-year-old man was arrested and will answer for “withholding products for speculation purposes” and will be at the disposal of the Justice. The security forces learned of the case through an anonymous notice.

The Secretary of Security, Colonel Louismar Bonates, was at the scene of the complaint and found the truck, distant from the company, with the cylinders that the company was gradually distributing.

The event occurred near the Sesc Amazonas. In total, 33 cylinders were found in the truck, of which 26 had oxygen.

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During the interrogation, the man claimed to have an oxygen cylinder trading company, but he feared that the population would invade the establishment, in search of the material, and decided to move him away.

It also reported that the cylinders had been filled on Wednesday (01/13). The seized materials were sent to the Manaus hospital units on Thursday night ”.

Civilian police officers today escorted supplies to four state health units.

11 cylinders were sent to Hospital Beneficente Português. Six were for the Amazonas State Oncology Control Foundation (FCecon), six for the São Raimundo SPA and three for the Coroado SPA.

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The crisis caused by the new coronavirus pandemic in the capital of Amazonas has worsened day by day, especially with the lack of oxygen for patients hospitalized for the disease.

As of Tuesday (1/12), Manaus registered 2,221 new hospitalizations, a record in a month, although we are still in the first half of January. The number is greater than the total number of hospitalizations registered for the entire month of April.

The Minister of Health, General Eduardo Pazuello, met with Wilson Lima this Monday (1/11) to address the particularity of Manaus and announced a series of measures for the capital.

The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) was called in to transport oxygen tanks to Manaus.

The demand for hospital oxygen in public health facilities in Amazonas this Tuesday (1/12) exceeded the daily average consumption by more than 11 times.