The Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara (UAG) says it will review its policy regarding the placement of medical student interns, following the brutal murder of a 23-year-old intern, together with the driver of a Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) ambulance, which has caused shock and outrage in the state.
The bodies of Luis Fernando Montes de Oca Armas and his driver, Octavio Romero, were found a few meters from their ambulance in the community of La Florida, in Valparaíso, Zacatecas, on the evening of June 30. Both had been shot to death at close range, and the ambulance set on fire.
The pair were on their way back to Jalisco after transporting a patient from a clinic in Huejuquilla El Alto to a hospital in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. An alert was raised after they failed to return three hours after their scheduled arrival. Like many other medical students who have finished their four-year course at the private, higher learning institution, Montes de Oca, 23, had been assigned his obligatory internship with the Jalisco Health Department (SSJ).
The UAG said it will relocate interns who have been placed in rural areas where security issues prevail. The university said it will try to seek more spaces with medical institutions within the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
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