Doctors from Costa Rica and Cuba examine comatose student shot in the head by Mexican police

MEXICO CITY, November 3rd, 2015 (EFE) Two foreign neurologists have examined Aldo Gutierrez, an education student who has been in a coma since he and several classmates were shot in Iguala, a city in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, in September 2014, the Executive Commission for Assisting Victims, or CEAV, said Tuesday.

Calixto Machado, of the Cuban Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute, and Costa Rican neurologist Mauricio Chinchilla examined the comatose student last Friday, the CEAV said.

Machado and Chinchilla traveled to Mexico at the request of the patient’s family and evaluated his condition and chances of recovery, the CEAV said in a statement.

“Once the analysis of the current information (clinical, neuroimages and neurophysiology) is completed, the doctors will prepare a diagnostic report on the vegetative state and guarded outlook in which Aldo finds himself,” the commission said.

The physicians will also provide guidance on monitoring and treatment options, the CEAV said.

The doctors thanked the Mexican National Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute for its help and noted “the medical care of the highest level being received by Aldo,” the CEAV said.

The visit was made possible through the efforts of the group of experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or IACHR.

Gutierrez was shot in the head by police officers who attacked a group of Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School students on Sept. 26, 2014.

Six people, including three education students, died that night, 25 were wounded and 43 students were detained by police and then handed over to members of the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel.

The bodies of the missing students have not been found despite extensive searches conducted by officials and relatives.

Residents of Carrizalillo, a town in Guerrero, called on officials on Monday to search the area for the bodies of the 43 missing students in light of the recent discovery of a mass grave.

Eduardo Neri, a suspected member of the Guerreros Unidos, was arrested in the town last week.

The CEAV is a public agency created in January 2014 to assist the victims of federal crimes and human rights violations.