Video | This is how a man collapsed inside Ibagué’s transport terminal as he prepared to travel to Barranquilla

While moving inside Ibagué’s transport terminal, a Barranquilla citizen returning to his town was caught after falling unconscious to the ground.

The man, identified as Harold Vásquez, a risk management and disaster management technician, was preparing to take a bus back to the Atlantic capital after spending time in Ibagué and as he waited for the right moment to start the journey, his body did not resist and he lost control of himself as he walked until he unconsciously entered with the terminal tile.

Although the situation occurred around 3 p.m. on Thursday February 18, the video of everything that happened was broadcast until the afternoon of Monday March 1 on Citizen Miguel Angel Figueroa’s YouTube channel, which generally records police procedures and operations. in the capital Tolima.

In the video uploaded to YouTube, Figueroa said Vásquez had a heart attack while in Ibagué and that police assisting him noticed the Barranquillero had no pulse.. The images show that after the deputy commissioner intervened, the man regained his breathing and vital signs and was put on a stretcher for treatment in a hospital.

This reaction would have occurred after the impact with the ground and a police patrol car which was close to the site of the fall could report the accident to Deputy Commissioner César Augusto Narváez Correa, who, putting his first aid knowledge into practice, carried out cardiopulmonary resuscitation work which was decisive so that Vásquez did not die.

As an immediate response, the resuscitation procedure and the transfer to a medical facility took approximately three minutes. Fortunately, the citizen did not lose his life after the help received.

Below are the images of the moment the man falls and is helped by the Ibagué authorities:

The recording shows how the man is assisted by a patroller who walked through the area where the crash happened and they captured the exact moment when witnesses even began to surround the man’s body for the help.

Colonel Jovani Benavides Quimbayo, Commander of the Metropolitan Police of Ibagué, explained in detail how the César Augusto Narváez Correa in uniform intervened to stabilize the citizen of Barranquilla as an ambulance arrived to take him to the nearest clinic .

In a statement released via Twitter, the police of the capital Tolima highlighted the work of the agent who remained in the institution for 27 years and managed to achieve more than 10 decorations. This Quimbayo said:

After Deputy Commissioner Narváez managed to save Vásquez, until he caught his breath, the man was transferred to a clinic in Ibagué, where the medical staff were able to treat him in more detail and he was completely stabilized.

Once stabilized by the medics, the traveler bound for Barranquilla returned to the terminal to personally thank Narváez and the police who helped him and prevented him from perishing on the spot.

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