Numerous aids in Navarre to the pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago

The OMAP (Mobile Office for Pilgrims Assistance) team of the Civil Guard of Navarre, which provides service throughout the Camino during its passage through the Foral Community, has been reinforcing its service since April 3 and, from So, he performed numerous aids to walkers.

During this month of May, there were several pilgrims who lost their belongings while completing their stages. On May 2, a US citizen told officers she had lost a fanny pack in which she was carrying cash, bank cards and personal documents. Officers visited establishments along the path taken by this pilgrim, eventually locating him in a bar and delivering him to his owner in El Espinal.

On the 4th, a 70-year-old Brazilian pilgrim received her personal belongings which she had lost a few days earlier in Roncesvalles. After consulting several shelters to locate her, they were able to deliver them to the town of Puente la Reina, the Civil Guard explained.

Officers from the OMAP unit also located the mobile phone of a pilgrim who had lost it in a pharmacy in the town of Cizur Menor on May 11. After much effort, they located the owner in a shelter in Zariquiegui and were able to deliver it to him.

On Monday, May 15, a Canadian pilgrim received a credit card that she had lost during one of the stages of her crossing of Navarre.

HEALTH AID

On the other hand, on May 1, the agents collaborated with the health services of the town of Uterga, where a pilgrim was injured after falling. She was in a place inaccessible to the ambulance, so the officers and the toilets transferred her on a stretcher to the town of Muruzábal where she could be treated in the ambulance.

Also in the town of Uterga, the next day, the agents helped a Canadian pilgrim who could not continue the journey due to severe pain in her legs, for which they transferred her to the place where she was staying.

In el mismo lugar el día 8, los agents observed a varón de nacionalidad estadounidense sentado en la plaza de esta población sin poder incorporation, por lo que le trasladaron al albergue en el que se alojaba para qu’repusiera y pudiera continue el Camino al next day.

On May 10, a pilgrim who was in the Alto del Perdón, when she observed the OMAP patrol, asked for them because she was sick and could not continue the stage, so the agents took her transferred to the nearest health center in Puente la Reina for evaluation.

These mobile pilgrim assistance offices, in addition to providing security along the Camino and offering information of interest to users, also stamp the identification information of pilgrims and facilitate the filing of complaints in case where it would be necessary to have the necessary means in the vehicle in which they provide the service.

Spike Caldwell

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