Girl would have died after the military detained an ambulance at the border

The tragic death of Michelle Pernía, a five-year-old girl who had heart problems and who, according to the accounts of several witnesses, members of the Venezuelan guard detained at the Unión International Bridge – which connects Boca de Grita with Puerto Santander in Colombia-, continues to arouse outrage at the border.

According to the newspaper El País of Spain, the minor died on Wednesday, November 30, in a wooden wheelbarrow that was barely covered by sheets and plastic. This after she and her mother, Milagros Sánchez, were taken out of an ambulance from La Fría and in which they intended to cross to the Colombian side of the border.

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Witnesses to the event contacted by the media state that the military not only forced them to get out of the vehicle, Rather, they asked the mother and the doctor who accompanied them to disconnect the girl from the oxygen tank, arguing that they could not cross the border that way.

After the refusal of the military, the woman made the decision to disconnect the oxygen tank and put her daughter in the wheelbarrow in the middle of the rain, in order to reach a medical center.

”Since Tuesday of last week, he felt unwell, it was difficult for him to walk, he could hardly breathe. (…) It was not the first time they had crossed the border to take her to the doctor in Colombia, but it was the first time they had done it for an emergency.”, Yusbey Medina, the minor’s aunt, told El País.

The woman says that the girl had already been treated at a health post in La Fría, in Táchira, but given the seriousness of her illness, the doctors had referred her to a larger health center.

”(…) thanks to a collection, an ambulance could be hired to take her to Puerto Santander and then be able to take her to Cúcuta”added the victim’s relative.

According to the outlet, the girl managed to reach the hospital, however, when she was going to be treated, she no longer had vital signs. Jonathan Pernía, Michelle’s father, told local media that his couple had to return to Venezuela with the minor in the same truck in which she died.

Several citizens noticed the episode and when they saw the mother crying, they approached to comfort her. There were not a few who took pictures and uploaded them on social networks, where the case was made public.

For now, the Venezuelan authorities have not referred to the case. Several hours after her death, Michelle’s lifeless body remains in the San Cristóbal morgue in Táchira, awaiting an autopsy by a forensic pathologist.

Source: Elcomercio

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