“Love, wait. Stay calm.” That is what the nurses repeated as they carried children in their arms and supported the elderly who could barely remain standing.
The magnitude 7.4 earthquake that shook Colombia this Monday had its epicenter in San José del Palmar, Chocó, and lasted nearly 90 seconds. At a hospital in Armenia, a municipality in Colombia, the movement was so strong that it threatened to knock the most vulnerable patients to the ground. There, amid the panic, the medical staff did not run to save only themselves.
In the video already circulating on social media, doctors and nurses can be seen calmly evacuating hospitalized children, one by one, without letting go of them, while the walls were still moving. There were no screams or chaos. Only steady hands holding those who needed it most, at the exact moment when everything could have collapsed.