Published: 09.02.2008
UMC: Patient without a name or country is identified and sent home
HEIDI ROWLEY
Tucson Citizen
An illegal immigrant who has been at University Medical Center since he was injured in a rollover in April has been identified and sent to his family in Guatemala, the hospital has reported.
Because of a brain injury suffered in the crash, the man, whom the hospital called Adobe, was unable to communicate his name or home country.
UMC spokeswoman Katie Riley said Vazquez Escalante, 34, was positively identified by the Guatemalan consulate in Phoenix and transported to his family on Friday.
Escalante was one of an estimated 50 to 60 illegal immigrants in a pickup truck that rolled near Arizona City on April 27.
The Pinal County Sheriff's Department estimated that 20 to 30 people ran away after the crash. Four men died, 18 people were flown to hospitals in Tucson and Phoenix and another nine were taken by ambulance to area hospitals, the sheriff's agency reported.
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