The aeromedical transfer mission for a 27-year-old indigenous woman with a high-risk pregnancy that required specialized medical assistance was carried out by an aircraft of the Colombian Aerospace Force.
Responding in a timely manner to the call of the CNRP National Personnel Recovery Center, the C-208 Caravan aircraft took off of the Casanare Air Group in ambulance a configuration to the municipality of Cumaribo in the department of Vichada, to transfer a patient with 37 weeks of gestation who required immediate assistance at a high complex medical center in Villavicencio.
The woman belongs to the Piapoco indigenous ethnic group and due to the difficult access of the rural area of Cumaribo to the San Juan de Dios Departmental Hospital in this municipality, the patient did not have prenatal procedures or medical assistance in her high risk pregnancy.
During the flight, the crew and military medical personnel of the Casanare Air Group, GACAS, assisted the patient to monitor and stabilize her vital signs, until she was transferred to the medical staff of the Departmental Hospital of Villavicencio thanks to the support of the N°2 Air Combat Command.
Source: Public Communication Office GACAS
