"This is HK4679 G on a philanthropic trip between La Primavera and Cumaribo, shipping COVID-19 tests at 3,500 feet," Ernesto Perez radioed to a close-by army installation as he directed his twin-motor plane over Colombia's wide eastern fields.
Perez, who works in budgetary innovation, mentioned consent to reroute to maintain a strategic distance from storm mists, controlling the sterilized airplane to one of the Andean nation's remotest towns.
He is among around 100 proprietors of a private airplane who addressed a call from President Ivan Duque to help transport specialists and clinical supplies to the farthest-flung zones of Colombia.
Without the planes, it is difficult to get coronavirus tests from rustic zones to urban labs before tests are harmed. Duque has called the pilots "quiet saints."
"It was a call from the president, who expected to associate the most remote zones of the nation so we could get the examples that will be tried in Bogota," Perez said on the runway in La Primavera before making a beeline for his next stop. "In the blustery season, it's outlandish by the street."
The private planes have shipped a huge number of tests and many specialists on in excess of 200 trips since a highly sensitive situation was pronounced in March, including taking clinical staff to Arauca region, on the outskirt with Venezuela.
Hanging tight for the plane in La Primavera, in Vichada territory, were two emergency clinic authorities and 34 coronavirus tests.
The town has no affirmed instances of coronavirus, however, authorities are leading irregular testing.
"(The planes) are phenomenal assistance in view of the troublesome access," said emergency clinic bacteriologist Diana Carolina Galvan.
The plane likewise gathered 47 examples from the town of Caribou.
Colombia has in excess of 39,000 affirmed instances of coronavirus and almost 1,300 passings.
Perez said he stresses over getting tainted yet will continue flying since he needs to help.
"It's a flat out fulfillment."