A man died after a collision on the national road in Melgasu

The man died on Saturday after being hit at Estrada Nacional 202 in Alvaredo, Melgaso, a source from the subregional command for emergencies and civil protection of Alto Minho told Lusa news agency.

According to the Civil Protection Service, an alert was issued at 4:41 pm on Saturday that a man in his 50s had been hit, possibly by a car, and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene, leaving the road of national importance was blocked. closed.

Melgasu firefighters arrived at the scene with an ambulance, a recovery vehicle and a command vehicle, as well as the PNR with two patrols.

A medical vehicle from the Viana do Castelo hospital was present on INEM’s side, but a civil defense source said there was “no indication that the SIV immediate life support vehicle” had left.

In total, there were seven combat vehicles and 18 people at the facility. They considered using a helicopter, but ultimately did not go to the scene because the victim was pronounced dead, he said.

Traffic on this national road resumed around 6 p.m.

Regarding this accident, the Union of Pre-hospital Emergency Doctors said this Saturday that it coincides “with a long period of inactivity” of the INEM SIV ambulance based in Melgaso due to a lack of specialized specialists.

In its statement, the union asks the INEM board of directors to provide an explanation, arguing that there was already another case “in which a citizen [acaboi] for lack of timely access to emergency medical care differentiated by ambulance [estar] closed due to shortage of pre-hospital emergency care specialists.”