The state of health of the four children who survived the Colombian jungle is evolving “favorably”, although they remain at “high risk” for possible infectious diseases, the military hospital in Bogotá reported Thursday, where they are being treated. .
The plane that the children of 13, 9, 5 and one year old boarded on May 1 was found two weeks later with its nose crushed against the ground in the middle of the jungle in the south of the country.
Still in “nutritional deficit”
All three adults on board – the mother, a relative and the pilot – died in the crash and the children wandered for 40 days before being found on Friday.
“The evolution of each one of them is favourable,” the hospital where the four indigenous children were transferred said in a health bulletin. They demonstrated “adequate tolerance to increased nutritional intake,” it is specified, noting, however, that “from the infectious point of view, they are still considered to be at high risk due to their nutritional deficiency.”
The rescue of the four children, found by indigenous people participating in the search initiated by the army, went around the world. A video of the incredible encounter, filmed with a mobile phone, shows them emaciated, terribly emaciated, the youngest in the arms of one of his rescuers.
During their wandering, the four children of the Uitoto ethnic group ate cassava flour that they found on board the crashed plane, as well as fruits collected in the jungle.
Source: BFM TV
