Forty days of survival in the jungle, it leaves traces. But the state of health of the four children who survived the Colombian jungle is evolving “favorably”, although they remain at “high risk” in the face of possible infectious pathologies, the military hospital in Bogota, where they are being treated, reported on Thursday. .
The small plane the 13, 9, 5 and one-year-old children boarded on May 1 was found two weeks later with its nose smashed to the ground in the middle of the jungle in the south of the country. The 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.
A high risk of infectious diseases
The children demonstrated “adequate tolerance to increased nutritional intake”, it is specified, stressing however that “from an infectious point of view, they are still considered to be at high risk due to of their nutritional deficit.
The rescue of the four children, found by natives participating in the search launched by the army, went around the world. A video of the incredible encounter, filmed on a mobile phone, shows them haggard, terribly emaciated, the smallest in the arms of one of her rescuers. During their wanderings, the four children of the Uitoto ethnic group fed on cassava flour they found on board the crashed plane, as well as fruits gathered in the jungle.