Five runners continue hospitalized

15/07/2008. Three of them are suffering from gorings from the 9th, 10th and 12th of July and the other two runners were admitted to hospital suffering from contusions and traumatisms

Although the Sanfermin running of the bulls came to an end yesterday, 14th of July, five of the total number of 46 runners given hospital treatment from the eight runnings of this year are still confined to the public hospitals of The Virgen Del Camino or The Hospital de Navarra. They are all making good progress.

According to a report from the Government Health service, three of the five patients in the Hospital de Navarra are runners who suffered gorings on the 9th 10th and 12th of July. The runner from Bilbao who suffered a goring on the 8th has already been recently discharged. The three patients who suffered a goring, as well as the other two patients suffering from traumatisms and bruisings, are all progressing favorably.

There are four patients in The Hospital de Navarra and their condition is as follows:

-J.M.E.A., aged 37, from Lekunberri (Navarra). He was admitted to hospital on the 7th suffering from thoracic traumatism, hemoneumothorax from multiple rib fractures, a broken spleen and surrounding abdominal bruising. He is making favourable progress.

-W.M.D., aged 22, from California. He suffered a goring to his right buttock. He was admitted on the 9th and he is making favourable progress.

-I.F.R., aged 28, from Valladolid. He suffered a goring to his right thigh in the running of the bulls on the 10th. He is making good progress.

-D.A.C., aged 19, from Santander. He suffered thoracic traumatism with two rib fractures and sight unilateral neumothorax. He was injured yesterday, 13th of July and he is making favourable progress.

In The Virgen Del Camino Hospital, only one patient continue on ward and he is making good progress.

-W.J.C., aged 26, from Colombia. He suffered a goring to his right thigh when a bull caught him at the final stretch leading into the bullring on the 12th of July. He was admitted to Orthopaedic Surgery Section. He is making good progress.