The odyssey and the expenses faced by jujeño interned in Bolivia

Manuel Vilca, the jujeño musician who suffered an accident during his tour in Bolivia and could not pay the price requested in this country for an operation, returned yesterday to Jujuy in a provincial medical plane to continue his treatment and be badured in a Bolivian clinic where he arrived for surgery, he was asked USD 10,000.

"At the first hospital where I was in Oruro, we spent about US $ 3,500 between us, who were hospitalized, had my foot operated and I had to pay for the titanium, and then at the Cochabamba clinic where they I've transferred., which was semi-private, asked me for $ 10,000 for spinal surgery, "said the musician at TN's signal.

Vilca had suffered a road accident in Bolivia on December 8 and had caused many complications due to the payment required for each medical treatment received. He was admitted to a public hospital in Oruro and then to a clinic in Cochabamba.

The money the musician had to pay at the health centers where he was and whoever asked for it also generated
letter of repudiation of the governor of Jujuy Gerardo Morales to the Bolivian president, Evo Morales.

In this document, the first president of Jujuy complained of the "dehumanized" treatment of Argentines, which

Evo Morales

"I should be ashamed," he says.

In the same public letter, published on Twitter, Morales recounted all the expenses that Vilca had to badume during his unfortunate pbadage in the Bolivian health system: "Manuel was hospitalized for 5 days and charged with the sum of 22,000 pesos in December, was transferred to a clinic in Cochabamba, where he had to pay the sum of $ 7,000 with his family and friends. Operation, they wanted him to pay $ 10,000 more. "

The Vilca case has revived the problem of reciprocity in medical care between Argentina and Bolivia.

When he returned to Argentina, Vilca gave some details about his hospitalizations. "When we had the accident, they took us to a public hospital in Oruro, where everything was very precarious, they did not have a tomograph and on the third day they wanted to leave because they were not there. they had been operated on by the foot, but I told them I still had pain. " the musician in a TV interview.

Then, in a semi-private clinic in Cochabamba, the musician said that he had undergone a CT scan, had been operated on the spine and asked for $ 10,000.

According to local media
Jujuy at the time, Vilca had to pay 2,000 USD to receive the papers of his hospitalization and be "released" to return to Jujuy. The money was finally paid by the Jujuy government, which could bring the artist yesterday in a medical plane.