Riots Close to
Government House under
Investigation
Panamanian President
Martin Torrijos ordered
to investigate riots
occurred Thursday when
relatives of the dead
people because of an
altered medication
wanted to take their
demand to the interior
of the Panamanian
Government House.
President Torrijos, who
was in Managua,
Nicaragua, at the moment
the protest took place,
revised all the films of
the riots between
demonstrators and the
security forces.
The images took the
first spaces of all the
local TV news reports,
and permitted the
population to see at
least 50 people go over
the guards and fight
against them.
The members of the
Committee for the Right
to Life and Health,
relatives and survivors
of the Kidney Acute
Insufficiency Syndrome
claimed for justice and
wanted to give a letter
with demands to Torrijos.
An official communiqué
said demonstrators
rejected to see
Panamanian Presidency
vice president Dilio
Arcia.
Torrijos said he was sad
and sorry for what had
happened, and ordered
Vice President Ruben
Arosemena, Presidency
Minister Ubaldino Real
and People's Defender
Ricardo Vargas to carry
out the investigation
The government committed
itself to speed the
delivery of economic
help to survivors and
relatives of victims of
the Kidney Acute
Insufficiency Syndrome,
which sum up 400 people
together.
In October 2006, the
first dead people
appeared, which reached
the number of 102, and
another 30 cases are
investigated.
Also, a total of 80
survivors of poisoning
with dietyleneglycol
used as glycerine, are
being taken care. |
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