BOGOTA – The four children who remained lost in the Amazon jungle for 40 days after surviving a plane crash and were rescued on Friday They are in “acceptable clinical conditions,” reported this Saturday the Central Military Hospital (HMC) in Bogotá, where they are recovering.
“After having made an initial multidisciplinary assessment of the young heroine Lesly and her three little brothers, we found some children and a young woman in acceptable clinical conditions, despite the crisis and the situation experienced in the last 40 days,” he told a conference. press release General Carlos Rincón Arango, HMC doctor.
The children were taken out of the jungle last night in a Colombian Air Force (FAC) helicopter that took them to San José del Guaviare, capital of the department of Guaviare, where a C-295 plane configured as an ambulance picked them up and brought them to the capital.
The rescued are the 13-year-old girl Lesly Mukutuy, who was in charge of taking care of her brothers Soleiny Mukutuy, 9, for 40 days; She has Noriel Ronoque Mukutuy, five years old, and Cristin Neruman Ranoque, a one-year-old baby.
The doctor assured that the minors will be hospitalized “more or less between two or three weeks” and will be cared for by a “multidisciplinary team.”
General Rincón explained that they are undergoing clinical and imaging diagnostic tests and nutritional and psychological recovery treatment, and stressed that “conditions that put their lives at risk have been ruled out.”
The accident occurred on May 1 when a Cessna 206 plane operated by the Avianline Charter’s company in which the four children were traveling along with their mother, another adult and the pilot, crashed in the Colombian Amazon jungle, between the departments of Caquetá and Guaviare.
The four children who had been lost since May 1 in the jungles of southern Colombia after the plane crash in which they were traveling were found alive.
Fifteen days later, the authorities found the crashed plane and the three adults dead inside, but they did not find the minors, for which “Operation Hope” was launched, which mobilized more than 200 soldiers and indigenous people from the area in search of the children.
Finally on Friday, on the 40th day after the accident, the miracle expected by the country occurred and the four children were found alive in a remote part of the jungle.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Defense Minister Iván Velásquez led a government delegation that visited the minors this Saturday and stressed that they are in good condition, taking into account that they lasted 40 days lost in the jungle.
Velásquez appreciated what Lesly had done, whom he recognized “not only for her courage but also for her leadership because,” thanks to her, “the three little brothers were able to survive, with her care, with her knowledge of the jungle.”
He also reported that Tien Noriel turned five when they were in the jungle, while Cristin, the baby, celebrated her first year of life there.
The minister highlighted the work of all the people who participated in the search, led by the Military Forces and “the indigenous communities that supported, contributed” with their knowledge of the area.
