Overview

• Midday on August 13 at Isabel la Católica station on Metro Line 1 a toddler began choking on a peanut, prompting a mother’s call for help.
• Two female Policía Bancaria e Industrial officers immediately applied pediatric CPR and, with the mother’s assistance, expelled the peanut within seconds.
• ERUM paramedics arrived shortly after, assessed the child as clinically stable and ruled out the need for hospital transfer.
• The SSC’s released video footage of the rescue was first shared by journalist Carlos Jiménez and has been widely circulated by media outlets.
• After the evaluation, the mother signed the station’s log, thanked the responders and departed the station with her child.