Residents of the Joana Peres community, located in the municipality of Baião, in the northeast of Pará, completely closed traffic on the BR-422 highway early this Tuesday morning (21). The act was motivated by the delay in transferring a patient from the region, who had been waiting for more than three weeks for a place in a specialized bed. ? Follow the g1 Pará channel on WhatsApp According to the movement's leadership, the patient is one of those admitted to the Tucuruí Regional Hospital for 23 days, waiting for a highly complex bed. Given the lack of answers and the urgency of the case, residents decided to block traffic on the federal highway as a way to draw the attention of the authorities. Protest in Baião, Pará, asks for bed for hospitalized patient. Reproduction / TV Liberal The group of protesters states that BR-422 would remain closed and that the blockade would only be undone after a definitive response and the guarantee of patient transfer. In a note, the State Secretariat of Public Health of Pará (Sespa) informed that the patient's situation is already ongoing and that a specialized bed has been reserved for him at the Hospital das Clínicas Gaspar Vianna, in Belém. The secretariat, however, has not yet detailed when the patient will be transported to the capital of Pará for treatment. VIDEOS: see all the news from Pará Read more news from the state on g1 Pará