This is the moment a three-year-old boy was pulled alive from the rubble six days after Venezuela was hit by a pair of devastating earthquakes.

Video footage shows a Jordanian rescue team cheering as the child, named as Klieber Morán by the country’s interim president, was lifted from the wreckage in La Guaira state.

He was the only reported survivor on the sixth day of rescue efforts, according to local authorities.

Venezuela was hit by two earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 less than a minute apart last Wednesday, toppling buildings and trapping thousands of people beneath the rubble. 

The death toll has risen to 1,943 with more than 10,000 people injured and tens of thousands more still unaccounted for.

The rescue of little Klieber has been described as a moment of hope by National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez.

‘We must hold onto the hope of continuing to find people alive beneath the rubble,’ Jorge said in a televised address. 

This is the moment a three-year-old boy was pulled alive from the rubble six days after Venezuela was hit by a pair of devastating earthquakes

Video footage shows a Jordanian rescue team cheering as the child, named as Klieber Morán by the country’s interim president, was lifted from the wreckage in La Guaira state

‘Early this morning, a boy was rescued and is currently receiving care at a health center in Caracas.’

According to the Jordanian civil defence, Klieber has been taken to hospital where he has been given first aid treatment.

It is understood that his vital signs were good. 

The rescue comes as a shipment from UNICEF carrying 47 metric tons of humanitarian supplies arrived in Venezuela yesterday.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the equipment would help support children and families in need.

The shipment includes emergency health kits for urgent medical care, including supplies for safe births, newborn care, disease prevention, and treatment, Dujarric added.

A humanitarian crisis is quickly unfolding in Venezuela following the earthquake. 

World Health Organization spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said the country’s healthcare system, strained by decades of underinvestment and years of economic crisis, is ‘under extreme pressure now’. 

People look at burned-down buildings after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Venezuela

People search their belongings amid debris of collapsed buildings in Caracas 

Search and rescue operations continue in the region following the earthquake 

Many of those displaced in the hardest-hit state of La Guaira, just outside the capital of Caracas along the coast, are also suffering from widespread food shortages.

Without access to toilets, showers or soap, displaced Venezuelans have also become increasingly vulnerable to the outbreak of preventable diseases like measles, given the population’s low vaccination rates, Lindmeier said, adding that conditions are ripe for waterborne infections such as dengue, yellow fever and malaria to spread.

According to the government, last week’s earthquakes damaged or otherwise compromised 38 hospitals nationwide. 

The WHO said it so far has evaluated 21 of those facilities, three of which are no longer operating. 

Another six have sustained damage and the rest are now buckling under the influx of injuries.

Many specialist doctors are missing in the ruins, including officials in charge of maternity care in La Guaira, the WHO said, compounding the challenges to healthcare in a country that 8 million people, including many doctors and nurses, have fled in recent years.

‘Findings reveal chaotic service delivery and patient flow, marked by overcrowding, growing surgical backlogs … and a breakdown in biosafety measures,’ Lindmeier said.