An Argentine is inferior to Chile and has to pay $ 70,000 a day for a bed

An idyllic getaway to

Viña del Mar

It became a nightmare last Sunday when Maximiliano Conca, a 40-year-old Tucuman architect, had a heart attack while crossing one of the city's spa streets.

Conca's girlfriend, who was traveling with him but could not drive, asked for help from a stranger. Soon he was transferred to Almirante Nef naval hospital in this Chilean city, where he was studied and operated at 18 years old.

There, he did not find a room in a Chilean public hospital, so he had to stay in the coronary unit of the clinic, where he was charged $ 70,000 a day.

"The consulate does not want to help us financially and in the beds of public hospitals, those who have priority are the Chileans," he said.
THE NATION Agustina Conca, sister of the victim -. We did not have a cheaper room either. "

At first, the mother and brother of Conca surrendered by transfer from Mendoza to take the money they had on hand, which quickly ended. Although they had contacts with the presidency and the government of Tucumán, the solution does not appear.

The authorities warned them that they already had a medical plane to make the transfer, but that these efforts were not progressing either. "We are looking for a way to do it," added Ana, "he is very nervous and very arrhythmic."

In addition, he again requested financial badistance to deal with this situation. "It's amazing, here in Argentina, we give everything abroad, it's a bordering country and we have no help, they are closed and when they say no, this is "It's not," she said angrily.

Earlier this month, a similar situation was encountered when a wounded Jujeño musician in Bolivia was forced to pay $ 10,000 for an intervention. The episode generated
an angry response from the governor of Jujuy,

Gerardo Morales

, who asked for reciprocity in free health care for Argentines in this country.