The Army soldier from the 138th command course who underwent a transplant was transferred from the intensive care unit to the transplant service of the Curry Cabral Hospital in Lisbon, the Army General Staff reported.
The hospitalized Army soldier was transferred from the Intensive Care Unit to the Transplant Service of the Curry Cabral Hospital, as a result of his stabilized clinical situation, continuing to show a progressive improvement in his state of health,” the Headquarters reported in a statement. of the General Staff of the Army.
The Army General Staff ordered the interruption of command course 138 until the investigation process of that training is determined.
The Army awaits the conclusions of the investigation process, “to be determined shortly”to assess the need for accommodations after recent incidents involving hospitalized military personnel.
The branch indicated a total of six interventions in a hospital in the field of course 138: the soldier who is hospitalized, a second soldier who suffered a respiratory interruption and was discharged last week, and four soldiers in the Hospital das Forças Armadas, at the Lisbon hub, “as a result of the health checkup carried out on all the students, on September 8”.
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who has already visited the hospitalized soldier, who underwent a liver transplant, said that this case seems to be “a very different situation” from what happened six years ago, when two young men died. . in an exercise.
There is an ongoing investigation, but it may happen that the situation is very different from the previous one,” said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, during a visit to the Lisbon Book Fair on September 11.
Dylan da Silva and Hugo Abreu, then 20 years old, died and other trainees suffered serious injuries and had to be hospitalized during the “zero test” (first test of the Commando course), which took place in Alcochete, Setúbal, on December 4, 2016 September .
Source: Observadora
