National Army combat nurses provided first aid to an Indigenous woman.
The soldiers of the National Army, in fulfilment of their duty to protect the wellbeing of the territory and its inhabitants, provided in a timely manner medical first aid to an indigenous of the community Cumaral –Chupave, municipality of Cumaribo, Vichada.
The indigenous woman, who was nine months pregnant, and her partner, asked the National Army soldiers for help when she was in labor in the dense Orinoco forest, where it was impossible to have an adequate medical service to give birth.
The troops of the Twenty-eighth Brigade, through a humanitarian action, supported immediately with the combat nurses, who in a quick action with the pertinent aseptic measures provided the medical aid to the pregnant woman, bringing a new life in the middle of the pandemic.
In a helicopter of the Aviation Air Assault Division of the National Army, the new mother and her newborn were taken to the municipality of Cumaribo, Vichada, and are out of danger.
Once again our heroes put all their skills and training at the service of colombian society for the preservation and care of the ethnic minorities that inhabit the most remote regions of the country, safeguarding life, providing security, welfare and support to these vulnerable communities in the forests of the Orinoco
Source: National Army News Agency
