The Albacete Basketball School will offer psychological support to the players affected by the bus accident | Present

Albacete

Eight injured, one of them serious, is the final balance of the accident that the Albacete Basketball School bus suffered on Saturday when they returned from playing a game in the town of Tarancón in Cuenca. The vehicle crossed the median of the A-31 highway, at the height of La Gineta, and overturned in the opposite lane. Inside were 23 players from the children’s and cadet teams and two monitors.

Of the eight injured treated at the University Hospital of Albacete, five of them transferred by ICU and ambulance, only two children remained hospitalized this Sunday, whose injuries are progressing well, and one of the monitors, a 46-year-old man admitted to the Unit of Resuscitation from the Anesthesiology Service with a reserved prognosis after suffering an arm amputation.

From the Albacete Basketball School, still dismayed by the accident, they will offer psychological support and physiotherapy services to players who need it. “From the Club we have considered it appropriate to offer some type of psychological help to the boys, something that we will do thanks to the College of Psychology of Castilla-La Mancha, which has offered to lend us a hand in this process”, its president pointed out in SER Dani Galvez.

One of the Club’s physiotherapists has also offered to “treat any ailment that can help our players 24 hours a day”, explained Gálvez, who thanked all the signs of support received since Saturday from inside and outside the sport. Shows of support such as those published on Twitter by the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, or the national leader of this formation, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

The accident caused the Madrid-Alicante motorway to be cut in the Madrid direction and to give alternative passage through other routes until the bus was withdrawn around 7:30 p.m. A crew of firefighters from La Roda participated in the device, who had to release the monitor who suffered the most serious injuries, in addition to members of the Civil Traffic Guard, three ICUs and a basic life support ambulance.