There was a moment of great tension in the middle of the game. At the 15 de Abril stadium, in Santa Fe, the fans of Union They were responsible for letting it be known that something was happening in the stands. Nobody was very clear what was happening; However, faced with the desperation of a group of fans, the referee of the match had no other alternative, Pablo Echavarriathan to stop the match that the local team was playing against Platense.
What was happening? A man was suffering from decompensation but no one came to assist him, because there were no doctors available in the stadium. Faced with such a scenario, the doctors from both teams helped the fan and to do so they had to jump over a fence because there was no one who could open the padlock with which the gate that connects the playing field with the stands was closed.
Two minutes into the second half, referee Echavarría received a call from the intercom with what was happening in the stands in the Cándido Pujato sector. The public, desperate, requested the presence of a doctor because a person had decompensated. In that sector the people were the ones who began to assist the fan and give him air. Even in the images you can see that there are two security personnel who also requested assistance without receiving answers..
Faced with this scene, the doctor from Platense, Nicolás Tonietto and Julián Gil, the kinesiologist from the Saavedra team, and the doctor from Unión, Santiago Calvo, they went to a door that they couldn’t open. The atmosphere of tension grew among the public and whistles came because no one came close to opening the gate that allowed entry to the sector. In their desperation to be in the stands, the doctors did not hesitate, they climbed the fence and went to the other side to be able to assist the fan..
The doctors fortunately managed to revive the fan. The Unión professional recognized that it was a man of approximately 60 years old who fainted and that they managed to revive him. After assisting the Unión fan, the fans applauded the professionals and helped them return to the playing field.
Meanwhile, Echavarría received information about everything that was happening. Once the doctors informed him that the person had been assisted and that he was out of danger, the referee resumed the match. They were, in total, five minutes of great tension.
After the match, some local media tried to contact the Unión authorities, who did not explain why there was no medical assistance in the stadium nor did they report why no one approached to open the padlock of the gate that connects the playing field with the tribune
A similar precedent
In April 2023, a situation was experienced almost identical to last night on the Unión field. The match between Banfield and Platense also required the assistance of professionals from both teams to compensate a fan who felt ill in the stands and they came to collaborate with the medical assistance that was in the stadium.
On that occasion they did not have to jump over fences, but they did have to reach the heart of the stands at the Banfield stadium to give first aid to the affected man. On that occasion, they even helped take him out of the stands on a stretcher and put him into the ambulance that was inside the field.
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