Amidst the closures that caused many major roads during the national strike, a video clip posted on Sunday 23 May on social networks sparked outrage among citizens, as it concerns a baby who died on the road from Buenaventura to Cali because some protesters did not allow an ambulance. Which was transported in passage, and they attacked.
The Argentine newspaper "Infobay" indicated that in the video recording, a doctor heard in the ambulance confirming the child's death in the early hours of the morning: "We are in front of La Delphina, I am a doctor, I am with the assistant, the man who drives the ambulance and the father of the child who has just died because The protesters did not let us pass. "
The doctor said that they tried in the ambulance to save the girl’s life, but the car was attacked by the demonstrators who did not want us to pass, as they threw tear gas canisters at us.
In the last part of the video, the doctor, who works in the ambulance and other members of the mission at the Hospital Luis Ablánque de la Plata in Buenaventura, indicated that they are trapped in the midst of the demonstrations: here ... without being able to bring the child back to the hospital and endanger our lives because we are under attack. ".
Regarding this situation, the Minister of Health of Valle del Cauca, Maria Cristina Lesmes, said that this fact should have been reported in a timely manner by the local authorities "as one of the most serious effects the department has received in the use of the medical mission services not only obstructing the passage of the child." To the neonatal unit in Cali, it has also prevented the professionals from returning to further develop their services at the hospital. "
Lesmes explained that the Ministry of Health received 123 violations of the medical team as a result of the siege imposed by the demonstrators during the national strike, of which 49 violations focus on the attack on ambulances and the difficulty of referring patients to health centers.
Finally, he urgently asked the government, "the freedom of movement of ambulances and the medical mission represented in the transportation of supplies and staff and the final disposal of hospital waste and the professionals who provide the service."
The event sparked outrage on social media. Senators from the Democratic Center, Maria Fernanda Caballe and Gabriel Velasco, were among those who spoke out and criticized the blockade in the country. Senator Kabal wrote on her Twitter account: "Members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will say that these things are minor consequences that must be" tolerated "for the right to protest.
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