Jorge Luis Medina Sarabia, a 41-year-old amateur soccer coach, who lived pending his beloved Junior, suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest following entering the stage, and ended up dying following being transferred to the Murillo Clinic.
Witnesses and sources consulted by EL HERALDO say that Jorge Luis passed one of the eastern access turnstiles, took the ramp and began to climb towards the eastern grandstand through the ‘snail’, but on his way he began to feel that air was missing.
Trying to get over the choking or looking to get out, he decided to go down and sat in a corner of the open space in the stands following passing the turnstiles. There, several fans, including two doctors, noticed that Jorge Luis was ill and proceeded to treat him. While some fans hurriedly called the Police and the Red Cross, the two doctors dressed in red and white gave him first aid.
“These were very distressing moments, people were screaming and scared. Those who were entering the east and north found that, ”said a witness who preferred to omit his name.
A group of members of the Special Operations Unit for Emergencies and Disasters of the National Police (Ponalsar) was present at the scene. Members of the Red Cross later arrived.
Everyone joined the procedure that had been undertaken by the two doctors who were as fans in the stadium.
“The rescue policemen gave him first aid and care. Then the Red Cross arrived. The person went unemployed, and resuscitation maneuvers began. It was done manually and then it was done with equipment,” said José Estrada, coordinator of the Red Cross in Junior matches.
“He was transferred by ambulance to the Murillo Clinic. Resuscitation was continued and vital signs were restored in the ambulance. He arrives at the clinic with vital signs, but later becomes unemployed once more and dies, ”Estrada summarizes.
In the 42 years that Estrada has spent with the Red Cross and in the more than 30 that he has been assisting the ‘Metropolitan’, he had not faced a contingency of this type. However, he clarifies that the situation had nothing to do with the show.
“The game had not started, it was not because of the euphoria or because he was impressed by the goals or anything like that,” he said.
People watching Jorge Luis in the middle of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) were shocked, anguished and desperate. “Many of us stayed watching until they took him away in an ambulance. They took him on the stretcher doing CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation, “said one of those present.
Medina Sarabia was coach of Club Deportivo Rosario Castro FC, of El Copey, Cesar. He also worked in the Sports and Recreation Office of the Cesarean municipality.
