Buenos Aires, January 17 (NA) -- The latest medical report on eight-year-old Bastián Jerez, who is in serious condition after the UTV he was in collided head-on with a pickup truck in the Pinamar dunes, indicates that the boy is “stable” and remains in a “pharmacological coma”. According to sources confirmed by the Buenos Aires Province Ministry of Health to the Argentine News Agency, on the morning of Saturday, January 17, the minor “remains clinically and hemodynamically stable, without the need for vasoactive drugs”. “The patient is in an induced pharmacological coma with mechanical ventilatory assistance,” they stated from the Provincial Maternal and Infant Hospital Victorio Tetamanti and added: “His evolution is awaited to gradually and progressively begin reducing sedatives, according to the clinical response”. In the previous report from January 16, health professionals indicated that the boy had undergone a third successful surgery and also noted that he has “multiple skull fractures”. Additionally, the prosecution requested the imputation of Maximiliano Jerez, the boy's father, in the case of negligent injuries, as he allegedly did not comply with safety measures. According to witness statements, Jerez was holding the child on his lap, as the vehicle has space for four people, there were five people on board, and Bastian was riding “piggyback” on his father.
