Fernando Aguero
03/01/2021 12:40 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/01/2021 12:40 PM
"She gave her life and not just anyone does that."
María Alicia Martínez (66) speaks from the deepest sadness, but with pride, of her daughter Marilena Bossio (26), who offered her life to save an 8-year-old boy after a storm broke out in Lake Cardiel, from Santa Cruz, and a kayak excursion will end in tragedy.
Two other people died and a firefighter is missing.
Marilena was a native of Río Tercero and in 2019 she received a veterinary medical degree from the National University of Río Cuarto (UNRC).
He had traveled to the south of the country in search of a job in his specialty within the career that was "large animals."
After hearing the terrible news, María Alicia and other members of her family immediately traveled to Gobernador Gregores, the closest town to the place where the incident occurred.
“
My daughter was a being of light
.
He not only had an enormous love for animals.
He was a wonderful human being from whom we all learned, ”his mother told the
Arriba Córdoba
(
El Doce
)
newscast
.
Marilena Bossio (26) and her mother, María Alicia Martínez (66).
The testimonies that speak of Marilena's personality coincide in her dedication to her work and her solidarity with her friends and colleagues.
Nora Trotti is a teacher at the UNRC's Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine and was Marilena's teacher in one of the last subjects of the young woman's degree.
In the School Hospital of the Faculty, the student gave herself entirely to the practices with the clinical cases of large animals.
"Her teachers, her classmates, we remember her as a very predisposed person and a very good student,"
the teacher
told
Clarín
.
“He was a person you could count on because a veterinary medicine activity where you need to be available 24 hours a day is something very special.
And
she was special
: if there were cases to attend to, she had no problem doing any task, "he said.
Trotti maintained that, according to the communication she had with other Marilena's companions, the young woman was "perfectly aware" of what she did when offering her own life preserver to an 8-year-old boy who managed to save his life in the tragedy of the lake.
The teacher pointed out that the intention of the young woman was to get a job in the South and stay there to have her first work and life experience.
The teacher warned that Marilena's attitude in the tragic episode of Lake Cardiel is not something that surprises those who knew her.
"We are not surprised, because his quality as a person was like that," he said.
The tasks of the rescuers in Lake Cardiel.
And he added: "Her colleagues and those of us who knew her are going to honor her the rest of the days by telling her story and repeating it because that is how people who change the world go to immortality."
Juan Cruz Sereno was an attached teacher and partner of the young woman in the last year of her career.
“The Hospital Escuela is a space in which the group is small, from 15 to 20 young people, it allows to have a close relationship with the students and there we were able to meet Marilena, who did the deepening in large animals and continued as an intern for a year and a half ”, he said.
"She was very willing, very active, very participatory and helpful," said Sereno, who added: "She was a person who
was available to lend a hand
."
María Alicia traveled to Santa Cruz as soon as she received the terrible news of her daughter's death.
This Sunday he arrived at Governor Gregores and had the opportunity to see his daughter's body before the rigorous autopsy was carried out.
"They allowed us to see her body and one had the illusion that it was not her because she
was a great swimmer and learned at a school in Río Tercero,
" said the mother.
“She was capable of giving everything without weighing the consequences.
I have no doubt that he offered his life preserver for a child ”, he completed.
The rescuers found three victims dead and are still looking for the body of Javier Barría Peralta, 29, a police firefighter corporal and brother of Daniel Barría Peralta (33), who died, and of the provincial deputy Claudio Barría Peralta (36) , who managed to survive.
In the incident recorded on Saturday afternoon, Marilena Bossio and Raquel Elsa Martínez (49) also died.
Meanwhile, Claudio and Mateo Barría were rescued alive, as well as John Maximiliano Hoffman (28), Martínez's son.
EMJ
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