The girlfriend of the Argentine infarction in Chile: "We had never imagined that such an eventuality could occur" – 14/02/2019

During his holidays in Chile, Maximiliano Conca, 40, from Tucuman, had a heart attack leaving a shopping mall in Viña del Mar. A few blocks from this place is the Naval Hospital, a clinic where they saved his life. he pretends 650,000 pesos of medical expenses.

In dialogue with TN, Jorgelina, his girlfriend, said that he was stable and that they had just taken him out of an intensive care program. But from Sunday to today, he has lived a real odyssey.

"It all started when we left a mall and he had cold sweat all over his body, we went to a nearby hospital and he was immediately admitted to the emergency room." After a while, one of the doctors told me that he had to do an angioplasty. As he was suffering from acute myocardial infarction, he arrived at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Three hours later, he was back in the room with a stent and virtually no risk. The next day, he suffered a disturbance of the heart rhythm. boarding school about four days"he said.

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Although he has a heart history, Maximiliano I did not engage any sort of badistance for the traveler. "It was a trip of three days, without insurance, since we arrived with the right amount of money, we never imagined that something like this could happen: only 350 000 pesos, 200 000 pesos more for stent placement and medical expenses.The count has risen to 650,000 pesos.The problem is that you still do not know when you will be released, so it's a real fortune for us. "

He added: "At the moment, we are paying a part, but we have to transfer it to Tucumán province, where we live, we need a medical plane." Fortunately the nation and several provinces have offered to make the transfer, but the plane has never arrived. ", said Jorgelina.

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"When they learned about our situation, the doctors tried to contact a public hospital, but they told us that there was no bed and that it was not there. way of moving it either, the situation was very tense. "

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