Last Sunday in San Pedro, Buenos Aires province, Jose Luis Silva He passed away following long months of suffering. He was 74 years old and days before they had amputated both legs. Her daughter denounced that the Saint Nicholas clinic where the intervention occurred was communicated to ask him to remove them, alleging lack of resources to do so. However, today the family is in the news once more because the legs found by a dog in a garbage dump might be from the retiree.
For Liliana Silva, the daughter of the deceased, her father’s sad agony began long before his death. The woman said that in December “the worst story in dad’s life began.” They were months where the old man had to wait until January to find a family doctor to be treated by AMONGthe social work of retirees.
However, the process became slow and extensive: the studies requested by the professional might only be carried out in February. During the carnival, Silva was hospitalized “because he doubled over in pain and mightn’t walk,” Liliana told The Opinion of Saint Nicholas.
In March, PAMI was admitted to intensive care at a clinic in San Nicolás, with which the family had to transfer the man to the city. There came the first bad news: they had to amputate one leg, but the other might be saved. He quickly started the campaign to get blood donors but the anesthetist had to be paid $200,000.
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“You talk to me regarding money and I am a domestic worker who earns 600 pesos an hour. My brother is a bricklayer and because he was here with me they left him jobless, two other brothers I have can’t even come to take care of my dad because they can’t afford the bus and my other sister is sick. Where do you want us to get the money?” Liliana told the professional. Finally, the retiree was operated at no cost following several claims.
It would be the prologue to a long journey of pain for the family. Silva had both legs amputated and then returned to San Pedro, but due to his delicate state of health, he ended up dying.
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After the operation, Liliana Silva received a call from the clinic. They told her that she had to take care of the legs that she had amputated from her father and they claimed that they did not have the resources to do it themselves.
“A clinic employee told me: ‘That is cremated and put in an urn. So, when your dad is done dying, you put everything together. Or they put their legs in a small coffin‘. I told him: ‘Are you serious?’” the woman recounted.
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As with the charge for the anesthetist, the health institution reversed its decision and stated that they would take care of it. Then a new ordeal began.
This week a dog found two human limbs in a garbage dump along with syringes, hoses and vials of medicineall possible elements to find in a hospital.
The prosecutor in charge, Martín Mariezcurrena, intervened in the case and the strongest hypothesis that occupies his musings is that it might be Silva’s legs. “We are going to take samples from the family to determine the identity of those remains,” he said regarding the progress of the case. The Silva family, for their part, understands that there might have been a situation of mala praxis with the old man
GI / ED
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