2023-05-06 17:58:06
While his parents made a short stopover in Montreal to attend a conference, a baby fell seriously ill earlier this year, but should be able to recover, according to the latest information.
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Augusto, the now nine-month-old baby boy of an Argentinian couple, suddenly found himself fighting for his life last March. He was hospitalized on April 19, at the Hospital for Sick Children, and his parents received a diagnosis on April 2, when they were only due to be in the country for three days.
“He is much better,” his father Matias Andretich told the Global network.
The medical team at the hospital had to try to resuscitate the infant by intubating him, while the physicists on site tried to understand what made him in his condition.
The diagnosis finally fell on April 2: it was rhombencephalitis that attacked the child, a form of inflammation of the brain. Augusto would have contracted the virus during the trip.
Since being given the green light, Augusto has been continuing his recovery in a rehabilitation center in Buenos Aires, where he will remain for at least a month. He will have to keep working so that he can gradually start breathing on his own once more.
In Buenos Aires, Augusto will have to continue brain exercises that will be prescribed to him by the doctors.
However, the last few months have been very trying for Augusto’s parents, both emotionally and financially, as they learned that their insurance only covered a small part of the costs related to the incident, which s amounted to $17,000 per day.
Air transport costs amounted to nearly $200,000. A fundraiser has been set up online to support both parents.
Matias explained that he will have to continue the therapies prescribed to him, even following leaving the center. The father explains that he remains worried for the future, but that he believes that the worst is behind him for the moment.
“It will be long, but he is really getting better,” he explains.
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