2023-07-28 13:18:00
The health minister of the Nation, Carla Vizzottimade a detailed evaluation of his management in a meeting at the Kirchner Cultural Center. Active participation of doctors, scientists and representatives of civil society, who took the floor. One of the testimonies, that of Sylvia Brunoldi, president of the Argentine Diabetic Protection League (LAPDI), brought to light an unexpected fact.
During her speech, Sylvia Brunoldi shared a painful personal experience, recounting that lost her husband due to complications related to COVID-19 on August 24, 2020, after a 30-day hospitalization.
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The story surprised by revealing that was able to visit her husband before his death, despite the fact that at that time visits were prohibited due to the isolation periods established by the Government. The testimony revealed the existence of discretionary visits enabled during the isolation period.
“I want to thank Carla -then Secretary of Access to Health-, that thanks to her I was able to fire my husband, and then the decree that allowed people to fire to our relatives in recent days. I don’t want to imagine what the pandemic would have been like without a Ministry of Health, with just a secretariat as it was, ”he said.
And he added: “He sent me a private message to ask me which sanatorium my husband was admitted to. I told him that he was the Anchorena and I understand that she interceded so that she could see him. When my daughter called to get the daily report, they told her she could go visit him.”
Brunoldi noted that in his visits that “There were other relatives with more patients” and said that she went to see her husband several times. The testimony closed with applause from the podium and from the audience,
It was just on Friday August 29th when President Alberto Fernández announced during a press conference the decree to allow accompanying visits during the last hours of a relative’s life. That is to say that at the moment when Sylvia Brunoldi faced the loss of her husband, there was still a week left before the decree that allowed visits was publishedeasing the restriction.
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Days later, on September 7, Brunoldi participated in the transmission of the daily report on the situation of COVID-19 presented by the Ministry of Health. During his speech, he shared his personal experience and asked Solidarity in compliance with the Preventive and Mandatory Social Isolation (ASPO).
The president of the Argentine Diabetic Protection League (LAPDI) stressed the importance of continue preventive measures to deal with the pandemic. He also called on the authorities and health personnel to allow visits to infected patients in their last days, understanding the importance of human accompaniment in such difficult times.
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