The drama of migration showed its worst face in Spain: a girl from Mali who was recovered by two members of the Red Cross from a cardiorespiratory arrest in the Spanish port of Arguineguín, after being rescued from a skid, is still in intensive care at a hospital . The images impact the country.
The Malian girl who was recovered by two members of the Red Cross from a cardiorespiratory arrest in the Spanish port of Arguineguín, after being rescued from a skid, is still in intensive care in a hospital, after her image has caused a great impact on the show the drama of immigration.
She and another child who was in the same boat are still admitted to the Intensive Medicine Unit of the Maternal and Child Hospital of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on the Atlantic island of Gran Canaria, both in critical condition awaiting evolution, she reported this Thursday a hospital spokeswoman told Efe.
In the boat in which the two were traveling were seven other minors, including two brothers who came alone because their mother was put on another barge, where most of the migrants were weak, hypothermic and in very bad condition.
The Malian girl was initially presumed dead by Spanish Maritime Rescue sailors who rescued her, because she was almost inert, given the severe hypothermia she suffered.
The image of his resuscitation on the asphalt already in the port has caused a notable impact, captured by the photographer of the EFE Agency Ángel Medina last Tuesday.
“When I arrived with another colleague, there was no one. Neither the Red Cross, nor the Police, nor the Civil Guard ”, affirms the photographer, who is not the first time that with his snapshots he contributes to denouncing the migratory problem in the Canary Islands.
A few minutes later, two Red Cross health workers arrived, “they took a girl who looked like a rag doll from her mother’s arms and ran over the two boats to get her out,” Medina says.
“I try that what I photograph shows reality while respecting the dignity of migrants,” he says excitedly.
Miguel and Paula were the two Red Cross volunteers who revived the girl, who had already experienced dramatic situations in the last two months, such as a canoe with five dead or a patera with a mother broken in pain because her child had died hours before at sea.
They did not lose more than two seconds, the time necessary to turn to the two reporters who were portraying the scene to ask them to call the 112 emergency service and request that the arrival of the ambulances be accelerated, because it was not going to be one more assistance.
“Until you find yourself in a situation like this, you don’t really feel what it is. They had the life of that girl in their hands. They revived her, it went well thanks to both of them ”, one of his teammates, who prefers to remain anonymous, has confessed to Efe.
The minor is accompanied in the hospital by her mother, who assures that she is 5 years old, although in the images she seems smaller.
The Canary Islands, located about 1,700 kilometers from Madrid off the northwest African coast, a three-hour flight from the capital of Spain, received some 23,000 migrants in 2020, an increase of 756.8 percent compared to 2019 and a migratory pressure that continues in 2021, according to official data.
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