00:16In Venezuela, more than two months after the twin earthquake, volunteer doctors in La Guayra
00:21continue to care for families who are still recovering their loved ones and the rescue
00:25teams that work tirelessly. Madeleine Garcia has the details.
00:30This is the social and comprehensive care post of the Francisco de Miranda front.
00:37Volunteer doctors are preparing for the day ahead. They have been in La Guayra since day
00:43one. They are heading to one of the ground zero zones, Carabajeda. Efforts to recover
00:51the bodies of victims of the June 24 double earthquake are ongoing there.
00:58The machines arrived at the nerve center of the housing mission, known as the OPS. They
01:04are on building number 26. They advanced layer by layer until they reached the sport court
01:11shared by all the structures that collapsed onto that common space. It is estimated that
01:16at least 30 children were watching Brazil play in the FIFA World Cup that day.
01:22The sport court is right there. We are standing on it. It has already been cleared, but no bodies
01:30have been found yet. They still need to dig deeper to see if there are any bodies. Not my son,
01:42but many
01:43children and adults.
01:47They carefully remove the slabs. They don't know if there is anyone underneath, but they
01:51must try to recover the remains intact in order to return them to their loved ones who have spent
01:56more than two months helping with the search, and waiting for that moment.
02:01Evelyn is my friend, my sister.
02:07Don't you lose faith?
02:08I know they are there.
02:12Yes, they are there. We have to get her out.
02:16Evelyn was Oscar's best friend. He is convinced that she is there. The double earthquake threw her
02:21and her son from their apartment amid the dust, sun, and constant work of the rescuers, machine
02:32operators, soldiers, and police. And that's where the volunteer doctors come in.
02:37Dr. Norbalina has been in La Guara for over 70 days. She comes from Bolivar State, located
02:43more than 12 hours away in eastern Venezuela, while she cleans the dust from their eyes. The
02:50others finished the work. It is integrative medicine that combines conventional and natural
02:54medicine. However, love and emotions are the main sources of healing and support in this phase.
03:01We are integral beings, and in this phase and the ones to come. Because this continues,
03:09the progress that all Venezuelans must make implies experiencing the strongest of emotions,
03:15finding each other, embracing each other, and supporting and helping each other. Even if emotions
03:21are often conflicted, we must move forward. Ninoska found her nephew. But her sister is
03:28still missing. She stays here day and night. We arrived at 9 a.m. and left at 9 p.m.
03:3412 hours total.
03:38We are waiting for the work to finish, so that we can recover her body and have peace of mind,
03:45knowing that we were able to do so. There's news. It's possible that the discovery
03:51is Ninoska's sister. No one stops. And there, Norbalina.
03:57It can be summed up in one word, humanism. Accompanying people in their pain is a dignified gesture,
04:07that everyone affected by the earthquake deserves. The same applies to caregivers, who also deserve
04:13gestures of affection. The military built this wall at the command post with information
04:22from neighbors and relatives. It bears the names of the 382 Venezuelan men and women who
04:29died in the OPS alone. Soon, Ninoska's sister will be removed from the list of 86 missing
04:36persons. Madeline Garcia, Telesur, La Guayra.
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