The French boy who fell into a volcanic crater in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, is admitted to stable

The French boy who fell into a volcanic crater in the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) is stable and this Sunday he was transferred to a hospital in Guayaquil, on the mainland of the country, to undergo more medical examinations, according to sources from the local emergency services. The 8-year-old patient had been hospitalized at the Republic of Ecuador Hospital on Santa Cruz Island since Friday, after apparently accidentally falling into one of the two volcanic craters of the Los Gemelos geological complex, more than 100 meters deep. The event occurred on Friday afternoon when the lesser rushed through the cavity at a depth of about 70 meters.

Among the injuries that the minor has a head injury as well as clavicle and shoulder blade fracturesas specified on Saturday by the father of the child, Jerome Devosse, in statements to local media.

The director of the Santa Cruz hospital, Boris Daza, also told the island media on Saturday that “it’s something miraculous” that the child has not suffered more severe and serious injuries: “He has not had any type of eventuality against (after being hospitalized). He is in stable clinical condition, but a tomography must not be ruled out,” Daza said of the patient, who he is conscious and can talk to his family.

For this reason, this Sunday the child has been transferred from Santa Cruz, the most populated island of the Ecuadorian archipelago, located in the center of the insular area, to a hospital in the city of Guayaquil. The child’s is the second unusual emergency that has arisen this week in the Galapagos, after a Mexican tourist with US nationality was bitten by a shark on Tuesday while she was snorkeling around the Mosquera islet.

Located about a thousand kilometers west of the continental coasts of Ecuador, the Galapagos were declared in 1978 as natural heritage of humanityconsidered one of the best preserved marine reserves in the world and at the same time the main tourist attraction in Ecuador.

Volcanic crater in the Galapagos Islands where the 8-year-old boy fell | Galapagos Islands National Park