Their ordeals really began after their small plane crashed into the Bolivian jungle earlier this week.
After hitting the ground, the plane crashed into a lagoon filled with anacondas and crocodiles, slamming the pilot and four passengers (including the 6-year-old boy) into a painful 36 hours, taking 36 hours to cling to the wreckage of the plane. Before being rescued on Friday In the northeast of this Andean country.
The doctor who treated five survivors told the Associated Press that they were conscious and stable on Saturday, with only the little boy's 37-year-old aunt still hospitalized on her head. The rest are discharged and recovered from dehydration, and are spread across the body with secondary chemical burns, infected cuts, bruises and insect bites.
Bolivia's Deputy Civil Defense Department released dramatic videos and images of the team rescued on Friday.
"We can't believe they weren't attacked and died," said Dr. Luis Soruco, director of the hospital, on the phone after sending pilots and two women who feed on powerful antibiotics.
Pilot Pablo Andrés Velarde, 27, appeared on Friday, telling the stories of many Bolivians – a rare and exciting news that desperately needs this country after years of economic and political crises.
Velarde told reporters that his hospital crib was in a hospital in Trinidad province. "Mosquitoes don't let us fall asleep." "Crocodiles and snakes looked at us all night, but they didn't get close."
Velarde said in shock that Caimans, a species in Central and South America, did not pierce them, he speculated that although there is no scientific evidence to be effective alligator repellent, it was the stinking smell of the remains that shrouded predatory reptiles.
Five of the women brought snacks, Velarde said, and the five survived. They have nothing to drink - the lagoon water is filled with gasoline.
Dr. Soruco said the small plane departed Wednesday from the village of Powers in the Bolivian village, which headed further south to larger Trinidad, where Patricia Coria Guary arranged for her six-year-old nephew at the pediatric hospital. Two other women, neighbors from Baures, 32 and 54, joined them.
This flight is a common form of transportation in the remote Amazon region carved with rivers. This time of year, heavy rain washed away the unpaved roads.
But in just 27 minutes (almost halfway), the plane's lonely engine cuts open. Velarde said he reported to colleagues about their upcoming crash on a portable radio.
He recalled in an interview with local media that he scanned the huge emerald green canopy beneath him and was designed to clean up near the lagoon.
“There are no pastures or roads along the way,” he said. “That’s just a swamp.”
Instead of gliding on the shore as planned, the plane crashed toward the ground and turned upside down - causing everyone on the boat, leaving Coria Guary with a particularly deep forehead and then splashing into the water.
"The landing is very difficult," Velarde said.
Five of them managed to climb to the top of the fuselage as the planes flooded, where they lived for two horrifying nights surrounded by the Kyrimans and Anacodas and were attacked by large crowds of mosquitoes and other insects.
They waved their shirts and sheets to no avail, screaming every time they heard the sensation of propellers or the rise of a boat engine. On Friday, in the sound of approaching the motorboat, "we started to shine on the phone flashlight and yelled," Velarde said.
A group of fishermen noticed and helped them into the canoe. They called the authorities and transported it to the Army helicopter a few hours later.
"We can't handle it for another night," Velarde said.
Bolivia's Deputy Civil Defense Minister praised the rescue operation.
"We are proud of the work our rescue teams have done. Their dedication and professionalism have saved the lives of crew members stranded in the aircraft," Minister Edmundo Novillo said in a statement. "This success is an example of the capability and efficiency of our armed and civil defense forces in emergencies."