President stops to help injured motorcyclist

Panama  President Juan Carlos Varela surprised his bodyguards on  Friday night, June 7 when transiting the Cinta Costera.

After spotting people gathered around the site of a traffic accident He ordered the driver  to stop and broke the protocol of his guards and got out of the car to help a motorcyclist who had crashed and was lying injured on the roadway beside his machine.

The president insisted on knowing about the health condition of the injured rider and his protectors to immediately request an ambulance of the Institutional Protection Service, (SPI), so the young man could receive prompt medical attention.