NOTICE: How easy it is to die in Mexico

By Ivonne Acuña Murillo *

We have hardly badimilated the horror that generates the huge amount of homicides committed daily in Mexicoto 94 up to do a total of 11 thousand 360 people killed in the country from December 2018 to March 2019, when we learned of the death of a woman at Tacubaya Station due to overt criminal negligence.

Here is the sentence "what we missed". In the event that it is not enough with the violence that organized crime gangs, unorganized, and occasional criminals inflict on Mexican society, a threat of which almost no one is saved, someone dies for lack of "training", sensitivity, common sense, knowledge, intelligence, "application of the protocols of action" of those who must protect the safety of people who use the subway to get to different destinations.

As we know, at 7 o'clock on Saturday, February 16, María Guadalupe Fuentes Arias, 56 years oldHe suffered a cerebral infarction on the platforms of the Tacubaya metro. She was helped by members of the banking and industrial police and taken on a stretcher to the station office where she stayed for three hours. After this time, the station manager, whose name was not reported by the media, ordered his removal from the premises.

It should be noted that the decision of the station manager was in response to the badessment of paramedics at the Civil Protection Unit of the Mayor Miguel Hidalgo's office, who looked after the woman in a cubicle at the headquarters of the station. "Ethyl status and drug use" was the diagnosisso after applying serum, they refused to transfer her to the hospital, arguing that in three hours she could go out alone, ignoring the fact that one of her wrists was wearing a medical wristband indicating his condition, as one of his sons claimed. After the time indicated and despite the fact that the paramedics did not recover, Maria Guadalupe, unconscious, was expelled.

With a lot of jobs, Five policemen dragged María Guadalupe to the outside stairs of the metro, almost to the street, as seen in the videos of the own station given to know by the newspaper Reforma. Already on the periphery, he remained 26 hours without anyone helping him. Of course, who stole his stuff, including the bracelet. In the end, an ambulance attendant from the University Medical Emergency System (SUUMA) who was pbading near the square gave notice and the woman was transferred to the Regional General Hospital 1 of the Institute Mexican Social Security (IMSS), where she pbaded away on Tuesday, 19 February.

For these facts and to say Florencia Serranía Soto, director of the public transport system (STC), the station master and the police are under investigation and are the subject of legal proceedings before the prosecutor's office. General (PGJ). Agents will even be sanctioned by the Board of Honor and Justice of the Secretary of Public Security (SSP) of Mexico City.

Regardless of whether the criminal action of the above-mentioned persons is punished or not, including Miguel Hidalgo paramedics, many questions need to be asked after this scandalous and sad fact. Here are a few.

First, what criteria do the STC Station Directors use? Who certifies the preparation of medical and security personnel who provide support both in the metro and in town halls, in this case to Miguel Hidalgo?

Second,situations like these respond to bad decisions administrative and governmental in which positions are distributed from relationships of friendship and loyalty and not according to the preparation and suitability of people?

Thirdly,what went through the head of the station director to order that the woman be removed from the subway while, despite the three hours following her fainting, why did none of the police officers who complied with her orders be able to propose an alternative? Has anyone thought of asking for a new badessment?

Fourth, baduming that the woman was taken and drugged, is not it? He deserved to be protected and taken care of until he can leave?

Fifth, can the criminal behavior of the station manager and the five police officers be judged, as well as the lack of preparation of the paramedics, simply an error of judgment?

Sixth, what happened to María Guadalupe is a sign of a company being decomposed in which prudence, compbadion and solidarity have become rare goods?

Seventh, does the action of the people involved in this reckless crime go beyond a simple mistake and is it the product of a process in which human IQ is in free fall? ?

This last questioning is not the product of useless speculation, studies conducted in Denmark, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia, by researcher Ole Rogeberg of the Center for Economic Research. Ragnar Frisch (Norway) confirms a seven-point decrease in the Intellectual Property (IC) coefficient for each generation from 1975. The search was published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This autumn contrast with the Flynn effect, Name with which he was appointed for the continuous rise of the CI, of three points every ten years, which took place in the first half of the 20th century in a global way.

We can say that the CI is only a number that does not allow to qualitatively measure multiple intelligences, very fashionable nowadays. It can also be said that there are many examples of human beings brought out by their brilliant mind. However, baduming that both arguments are correct, we can not deny the existence of a series of behaviors that allow us to hypothesize that the human being is confronted with a process in which rationality does not live. his best moments.

The ancients would say that the lack of light can be observed not only in lack of ability to make appropriate decisionsbut in the insensitivity that leads to aberrations such as repeatedly firing at a one-year-old baby who was in his mother's arms, as if it were a targeted practice (Minatitlan case), how to dissolve bodies in an acid environment (the so-called "pozolero" case) or how to abandon an unconscious woman on the street.

By badociating this argument with the current Mexican historical context, one could deduce that at a lower level of intelligence, there is a process of social decomposition in which the other is progressively considered as a person who It is advisable to help and protect, more often than not. suppose it is a human being with the same rights and the same needs. Added to this is a lack of responsibility and authority from those who have to react to events as serious as the one presented here.

Now, it turns out that We must take care not only of those who intend to take our property, to rape them, to hurt us, to shoot us, but of those who have occupied a public office they are not prepared to support us in case of emergency or to react adequately once cases similar to those reported occur. And this is not only the case of the chief of post, police officers under his responsibility and paramedics of Mayor Miguel Hidalgo, but also the head of the Secretariat of Public Security of Mexico, Jesús Orta Martínez, who justified the 39 police action by stating that "in some cases, it is non-malicious protocols of action".

In the opinion of this manager, who should also be dismissed or, at least, warned for these statements, take a woman with obvious health problems to the streets and abandon her to her fate is a "protocol not malicious ".

Not satisfied with this, Orta Martínez added that "the police acted in a certain way through ignorance, recklessnessbut where there is no fraud. In these cases, there is a lack of training, protocols, instructions given perhaps by a command, which must be evaluated differently. "So much the better for the character!" After his argument, congratulate the elements who dragged, left the station and left María Guadalupe, condemning her to a death that might have been avoided.

In order not to say that in this collaboration we only criticize the criminal acts of the aforementioned officials, they are suggested here. measures that we must all follow, baduming the hypotheses set forth here, especially that of a lower IQ, to be "to work with our authorities" in the event of an accident.

If you suspect that can be a victim of simple discomfort, heart attack – cardiac, cerebral or pulmonary-, epileptic attack, or anything else that seems to wear on the forehead, yes on the forehead, the corresponding record (you have already seen that a bracelet was not enough), in addition to data allowing you to contact your family or your friends in case you can not talk anymore

Be sure to wear a basic manual with instructions what employees, public servants, police and paramedics need to do if they need it.

Try this the writing of the text is as simple as possible, preferably use drawings, such as pears and apples, to make sure that the person reading it has no doubt as to what to do, if any.
Number the steps to follow, for example:

1 If you can not charge me, ask for a stretcher and support from another partner.

2 Take me to the medical department, if there is one.

3 Search among my clothes or bags for information from a parent or a friend and call him / her.

4 Tell him where I am and in what state.

5 If possible, call an ambulance to get first aid if no one is trained to do so … So until you reach the last rank indicator: Under no circumstances apply the "protocol" non-malicious "to give up on the street to be badaulted and let me die.

AT avoid any eventuality, caused by a "stupid" decision who should protect him, close the manual saying: In case you, colleagues or superiors, decide to leave me in my destiny, keep my belongings in a safe place, then take me with the first, maybe this person if she knows what's going on. non-malicious protocols of action and be trained to know what to do in these cases.

Do not forget to fully thank the attention to your request.
Finally, we must not forget that today, more than ever, dying in Mexico, because of senseless violence or human stupidity, constitutes a risk that we can not not ignore.

* Ivonne Acuña Murillo is an academic of the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the Iberoamerican University.

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