Chilean footballer who passed out in training leaves the coma and breathes without assistance

The Coquimbo Unido Natsumy Millions, 18 years old and promise of the Chilean youth team, breathes «spontaneously» and continues to evolve, the doctor Héctor Ugarte, of the San Pablo Hospital, reported Thursday where he is hospitalized after convulsing and fainting on February 19 during a training.

«We have managed to remove the mechanical fan, even extend it, it is breathing spontaneously well and without seizure activity,» said Ugarte, head of the Adult Critical Patient Unit of the Sanatorium of the City of Coquimbo, where he remained in an induced coma.

In a video broadcast by the female team networks of the pirate painting, the doctor said that «the evolution has been favorable» and that, since Sunday, when sedation was suspended, «she has woke up slowly and progressively.»

The footballer, who participated with La Roja in the 2022 U-17 World Cup in India, was training with the Pirate Table on February 19 in preparation for the beginning of the Women’s League, which will be in March, when he collapsed in the field and had to be transferred to Emergency.

«We are cautious, because the first hours after removing the fan we have to watch that there is no failure of this, so we have to be cautious and notice, we generally wait 24 hours to be calmer,» said Ugarte.

But he added that the player «looks good» and that there should be no «problems» in her evolution.

After the collapse, the Chilean press disclosed that the lead has a neurological condition for which it is being medicated and that it trained with medical authorization, but it is unknown if, in the future, the conditions will remain.

With the Chilean team, during his participation in the South American U-17 played in Paraguay last year, millions experienced a concussion in the match against the Albirrojas and had to leave the field in ambulance.

The Aurinegro team, meanwhile, will debut in the Women’s League on Sunday, March 9, visiting Santiago Morning.

EFE