Juan José María González de Chaves died this Sunday after being hospitalized for greater than a month in Monterrey, in northern Mexico. The person, of Canarian origin, whom his household and mates nicknamed Hansi, has died of cardiac arrest after a protracted convalescence, wherein he even spent 20 days in intensive care. The information was given by his spouse, Carolina Martínez, who has accompanied him throughout this odyssey. The household, which has had to enter debt, had paid 90,000 euros (1.6 million Mexican pesos) to attempt to save his life. Nonetheless, his well being situation worsened and resulting from his threat it was not potential to switch him to Spain. It has solely been every week because the case of Adrián Fernández, one other Spanish citizen who survives in an ICU in Cancún for 8,000 euros a day, grew to become identified.
The González household’s nightmare started on the finish of March. Hansi and his spouse Carolina have been in Monterrey visiting her daughter, María Victoria González de Chaves, who lives in Mexico and had not seen her dad and mom for a 12 months. The household’s journey was scheduled till April 15. Nonetheless, on March 31, Juan José started to really feel unwell. “With a whole lot of fatigue, cough and shortness of breath. Pondering that this could possibly be the flu or a chilly, we went to a medical session at a hospital and a number of other medicines have been prescribed,” says his daughter. The person took a flip for the more severe on April 10 the place he even misplaced full feeling in his proper leg for a number of minutes.
“We shortly went to the emergency room of a non-public hospital, the place they carried out quite a few exams and he needed to be admitted. In his proper leg they discovered a number of thrombi and it was decided that his lungs have been collapsed. After two days hospitalized, his signs worsened and he needed to be transferred to the ICU,” defined María Victoria González. After a number of exams, the hospital decided that he had diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, which includes having blood within the lungs. Hansi spent 20 days in intensive care, the place he was additionally intubated and sedated. Nonetheless, his lungs didn’t get better.
González has defined that the journey insurance coverage that his dad and mom had taken out by no means took cost of the coverage, as a result of he alleged that it was an sickness that had already come from Spain, earlier than beginning the journey, one thing that the household denies. “We needed to borrow cash and go into debt as a result of critical state of affairs,” mentioned María Victoria González, who additionally began a crowdfounding, the place she raised $27,000 from folks in the USA, Spain and Mexico. “As a result of we not have monetary assets, we needed to switch my father to a public hospital, the place the care shouldn’t be the identical and every part is far slower. We nonetheless must pay for medicines and coverings which can be nonetheless lacking in order that my father can get better.” This Could 12, the household introduced his demise. Now, the Authorities of the Canary Islands is supporting the household with the procedures to repatriate the physique.
Not like Spanish public well being, in Mexico there’s a fragmented well being system. Via insurance coverage, vacationers can entry personal facilities, whose price of care has elevated since 2016, in accordance with the Federal Financial Competitors Fee. Thus, whereas treating appendicitis can price round 116,000 pesos (greater than 6,300 euros) and a sprained knee 84,000 (4,600 euros), intensive care care can skyrocket above 140,000 pesos (8,000 euros).
Hansi’s case delves into the issue of journey insurance coverage in Mexico, after studying concerning the state of affairs of Adrián Fernández, the Valencian who suffered a cardiac arrest on his honeymoon within the Riviera Maya and needed to be urgently admitted to a non-public hospital in Cancun. In his case, the insurance coverage solely took care of the primary 20,000 euros, which pressured the household to ask for assist. Her sister-in-law, Marta Parada, defined to EFE that the 39-year-old affected person is responding nicely to the treatment and that the newest CT scan reveals enchancment in his lungs. Fernández is in an induced coma, so he requires synthetic respiration, however beginning this Monday the medical doctors have been going to decrease his sedation to see his response.
Parada has indicated that if the evolution is favorable, the medical doctors would take into account transferring him on a medical airplane to Spain, the place he could possibly be handled on the Ribera hospital, within the municipality of Alcira, within the Valencian Neighborhood, the place Sofía Parada works. Adrian’s spouse. In the meantime, the household, which is contemplating asking for a mortgage from the financial institution as a result of it has already exhausted its financial savings, continues to gather donations to cowl the medical invoice of 8,000 euros per day.
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