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Chef Ljubomir Stanisic, one of the faces of the “A Pão e Água” movement and who had been on a hunger strike in front of parliament for six days, was transferred to the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon on Wednesday.
The information was confirmed to the Lusa agency by José Gouveia, one of the protesters who is also on hunger strike, who said that Ljubomir had been transferred to a hospital unit earlier in the night. The protester said that the issue was “blood sugar levels”, not only for Ljubomir, but also for the rest of the people participating in this protest.
Questioned by Lusa, a source from the INEM confirmed that the team deployed “preventively” to “assess the possible need for psychological care of the protesters” detected “a protester with signs and symptoms that warrant urgent medical evaluation.”
An ambulance and a Medical Emergency and Resuscitation Vehicle (VMER) were mobilized for evaluation, assistance and transport to the hospital unit ”, the same source continued, adding that the demonstrator was transferred to the Hospital de Santa María, in Lisbon. However, the source did not confirm the identity of the person transported.
The group consists of eight men and one woman and has been on a hunger strike for six days. The group is camped, in makeshift facilities with tents and heaters, on hunger strike until the government receives them to seek solutions for their businesses, which they say are going to go bankrupt.
Last week, the Government announced measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic for the new period of the state of emergency: on the eve of the holidays, commerce closes at 3:00 p.m. in 127 municipalities of the continent classified as at risk. “extremely high” and “very high” and the closing hours of shops are kept at 22:00 hours and restaurants and cultural facilities at 22:30 in these municipalities and in 86 others considered “high risk “.
On the 14th of this month, the Minister of Economy said that the exceptional support to the restaurants of the municipalities covered by the state of emergency to compensate for the loss of income in these two weekends will be illuminated up to 25 million euros and will be paid in December.
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