According to an official source from the GNR, the authorities carried out searches, mainly in Bragança and on the route that connects this city to Sendim, a distance of about 100 kilometers. In the meantime, the man has already been found.

It should be recalled that a daughter of the elderly man told Lusa that her father, who lives in Sendim, in the municipality of Miranda do Douro, was transported by ambulance by local firefighters to the hospital in Bragança, where he entered the emergency service at the beginning of Tuesday night, with several injuries to his face.

"We have not had any contact with my father since 2:00 pm on Wednesday, when he was preparing to have a Computed Tomography (CT) scan", she said.

In a clarification requested by Lusa, the Local Health Unit of the Northeast, the entity that manages the Bragança Hospital, stated that, at the beginning of Wednesday afternoon, the patient "left the Emergency Service of his own free will, with his belongings, despite being repeatedly asked to stay in the Service", when he was "conscious, cooperative and oriented in time and space and, therefore, able to make his own decisions autonomously".

In view of this situation, the ULS Nordeste clarified that the competent authorities were immediately notified, as well as the patient's family, as per internal protocol.

The ULS stated that the man, "at the beginning of Tuesday night, was admitted to the aforementioned Emergency Service", after a fall on the public road and entered "without clinical criteria of severity".

According to the ULS, the patient was promptly attended to, assessed and treated, and all necessary procedures were carried out for his stabilization and recovery.

On clinical indication, the patient remained under observation in the Emergency Service, he added.

The family of the septuagenarian indicated that they had filed a report for the disappearance of the septuagenarian at the GNR station in Sendim.

[News updated at 7:08 pm]

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