The 69-day rescue saga for 33 Chilean miners came to an end yesterday, when the last of the miners, Luiz Urzua, was lifted from the rescue shaft late into the night, local time.
While all of the miners were admitted to the hospital after the rescue, doctors are surprised at the health of some of the miners, two were set to be released on Thursday, reported the BBC.
Others suffered some gum lesions from the conditions in the mine, and will receive dental surgery, and two of the miners, including the oldest, Mario Gomez, 63, have silicosis, a lung disease.
Most of the miners have been wearing sunglasses to protect their eyes after having spent nearly 70 days underground without light.
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera met with the miners after their rescue. Though he could not promise that further accidents would not occur, he did say that “we can guarantee one thing: never again in our country will we allow working in conditions so inhumane and so unsafe as happened in the San Jose mine and many other places in our country,” reported the BBC.
While all of the miners were admitted to the hospital after the rescue, doctors are surprised at the health of some of the miners, two were set to be released on Thursday, reported the BBC.
Others suffered some gum lesions from the conditions in the mine, and will receive dental surgery, and two of the miners, including the oldest, Mario Gomez, 63, have silicosis, a lung disease.
Most of the miners have been wearing sunglasses to protect their eyes after having spent nearly 70 days underground without light.
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera met with the miners after their rescue. Though he could not promise that further accidents would not occur, he did say that “we can guarantee one thing: never again in our country will we allow working in conditions so inhumane and so unsafe as happened in the San Jose mine and many other places in our country,” reported the BBC.
