Ten of the 52 immigrants Sub-Saharan Africans rescued tonight twelve kilometers south of Gran Canaria by Salvamento Marítimo have been referred to hospitals due to poor health, including a minor in critical condition, inform sources of the emergency services.
Finally, 52 people were traveling in the boat: 29 women (one of them pregnant), 14 adult men and nine children.
Six of the latter have been evacuated to the Maternal and Child Hospital of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, one in critical condition and five more with moderate hypothermia, says 112 of the Canary Islands.
Four other adults have been referred to health centers: a woman with severe hypothermia and two men with moderate hypothermia to the Insular Hospital and a pregnant woman to the Maternal and Child Hospital.
The occupants of the patera have told the health workers, policemen and volunteers of the Red Cross who have attended them in the first instance when arriving at the dock that left Dakhla, in the south of the Sahara, and that they had been at sea between four or five days.
His boat was detected this afternoon after 7:00 p.m. by the radar of the SIVE coastal surveillance system, when it was about 15 kilometers south of Gran Canaria, and was later located by a Maritime Rescue helicopter.
From the moment the rescue ship, the Salvamar Macondo, arrived at them, it became clear that many of its occupants were in poor condition. In fact, Salvamento sailors initially thought that one of them had died.
Upon arrival in port, most needed to be unloaded on a stretcher and fI had to resuscitate a small child on the same floor of the dock, as Efe has witnessed.
A member of the emergency services has confirmed that it is the minor who was sent to the hospital in critical condition, because he presented severe hypothermia upon arrival.
Among the minors, there are both boys and girls and of various ages: around one year, three, five and thirteen.
Among the nine children, there are two brothers of thirteen and five years who claim that they travel alone, without an adult to accompany them, because they say that their mother was taken up in another boat, have specified the sources consulted by Efe.
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