The number of people who, between the units of Alcobaça and Leiria went up to 70, were admitted to the Leiria Hospital Center, with vomiting and diarrhea, situations that will be related to contact with the sea on Nazaré Beach.
At a situation held at 5 pm, the local health unit of the Leiria region explained that 44 children and 26 adults were admitted to the same symptomatology, and none is under observation. All receive medical indications, high, and go home.
On this second day after the beach ban, the ULSRL Public Health Unit (Local Health Unit of the Leiria Region) recorded “a lower influx to urgent services by cases with symptoms such as vomiting, nausea and diarrhea”.
“Contacted users reported improvements in initial symptoms,” read the statement.
ULSRL also adds that “records are not yet fully completed” and that the health unit “continues to work on the verification of all identified cases”.
To Jornal de Leiria, the mayor of Nazaré admits that there was a “mismanagement of crisis”. “There may have been a poor crisis management, it is true. This was something that happened six days ago and we attacked the problem at the time, with water to be pumped throughout the night. We didn’t want to alarm [a população] Because the services said the conditions were guaranteed, ”he explains.
Praia da Nazaré continues to be banned, a ban that will only be raised according to the results of the analyzes, which should be disclosed today by the Ricardo Jorge Institute. According to Manuel Sequeira, the municipality is constantly following the case and believes the problem “is outdated”. “The technicians who have already been to find out and find in loco guarantee that [a água] It is in a position. ”
Still, the trip to baths is not recommended and the blue flag, which ensures water quality, has been removed. “It will be replaced when water quality is guaranteed,” explains the mayor.
It is recalled that, late yesterday morning, the municipality of Nazaré issued a press release to account for the beach ban.
The municipality explained that a technical occurrence recorded in the rain system originated “an anomalous occurrence, accompanied by bad odors near the coastline.”
News updated at 5:55 pm, with ULSRL’s last situation, which realized the increase of cases from 50 (at 12 hours today) to 70.