[Gocamino] A few Holy Year stats

[Sil]

In the first seven months of the year 136 500 people , representing a fifty
percent increase from the last Holy Year , collected the Compostela from the
Pilgrim's Office.  During July they issued 42 359 Compostelas and August is
expcted to be higher. 12 000 youth pilgrims will decend on Santiago today -
they are being housed at Monte de Gozo, sports halls, colleges and schools
and they will be issued Compostelas outside of the pilgrims office.
In the first seven months of the year the Civil Protection volunteers
attended to more than 70,000 people over eighty municipalities through which
the Camino passes. In a thousand kilometers of roads there are deployed a
thousand volunteers , nearly one in every kilometer .
With an average of 330 performances each day, most of the incidents
involving wounded or injured hikers. Fatigue , dehydration, sunburn and
wounds are the most common reasons that lead the pilgrims to use the Civil
Defence volunteers deployed along the Camino. While in most cases the
situation is resolved by a first-aid care on site, on 450 occasions has also
been necessary to move injured pilgrims to a shelter or even the nearest
health center .
Almost half of the care carried out on pilgrims - over 35 000 - was on the
Portuguese Way while the other 27 000 took place in one of the
municipalities through which flows the Galician section of the French Way .

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Sil
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