A female police officer is being praised for breastfeeding Acapulco baby boy who went 48 hours without food after Hurricane Otis.
Police officer Arizbeth Ambrosio was dispatched from Mexico City to the ravaged resort city and had just finished her tour when she was approached by the child’s hysterical mother Sunday.
The woman was in tears complaining that four-month-old boy had gone two days without a meal and that she was having problems finding baby food for him, Mexico City’s Secretariat of Citizen Security said in a statement.
A mother herself, Ambrosio, volunteered and breastfed the child while she sat on the front steps of a local business.
‘After a few minutes and seeing that the minor was satisfied, the citizen thanked the police woman for her support and kindness,’ the law enforcement agency said.
Pablo Vázquez, who oversees the Secretariat of Citizen Security, said, “My admiration for the commitment, kindness and vocation for service of the Mexico City police.”
Mexico City police officer Arizbeth Ambrosio volunteered to breastfeed a four-month-old boy after his mother approached the cop on an Acapulco street Sunday and complained that her son had gone two days without food
Arizbeth Ambrosio, a member of the Mexico City police, breastfed a four-month-old boy who had gone 48 hours without food in Acapulco. His mother told the cop that she was having difficulties finding baby food in the resort city, which was ravaged by Hurricane Otis last week
People went out for a walk Sunday next to rubble and damaged trees in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico
Ambrosio is part of a special Mexico City search and rescue unit known as “Zorros” that is made up of 100 agents, who were deployed over the weekend to Acapulco, where 43 people were killed by the Category 5 hurricane.
Five deaths were reported in the nearby municipality of Coyuca de Benítez.
Guerrero state Governor Evelyn Salgado said Sunday that 36 people are still missing, an increase from 10 on Saturday.
The death toll increased after authorities raised it to 39 a day earlier.
Military personnel and volunteers spent the weekend removing debris along Acapulco’s main tourist strip. Salgado said on Sunday that the main boulevard was cleared.
Salgado added that electricity had been restored to 58 percent of homes and businesses in Acapulco by the national electric company.
There were also 21 water tankers distributing water to remote communities outside Acapulco, which remained in ruins.
A volunteer receives humanitarian aid at a collection center in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, where 43 of the 48 deaths have been reported
Damage is seen at a yacht club in the aftermath in Acapulco, Mexico on Saturday
A man rides his bicycle along a zone damaged by Hurricane Otis in Acapulco on Sunday
Residents have complained about the government’s response to the devastating hurricane with winds reaching 165 miles per hour.
Nearly 1 million people were left in darkness and without running water by the storm – the strongest on record for a landfalling Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone – and desperate ransacked supermarkets and malls in search of foot and toilet paper while others were captured running away with electronics and homeware items.
Since then the military presence swelled to 15,000 and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called on the armed forces to set up checkpoints in the city to deter looting and robbery.
The federal civil defense agency tallied 220,000 homes that were damaged by the storm, according to López Obrador.