Candela Martin
05/08/2021 12:22 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/08/2021 12:22 PM
In El Tolar, a Catamarca area in the north of the Belén department, with only 90 inhabitants, which can only be accessed on
foot or on the back of a mule
and that does not have medical assistance, a six-year-old boy suffered an accident in which a piece mountain collapsed on him.
Desperate, his parents
carried him on a litter
along a path that normally requires three hours of walking, to the La Soledad area, where an ambulance was waiting for them to take them to the Eva Perón Children's Hospital, in Bethlehem.
Thiago, the six-year-old boy, not only
lost his teeth,
but his palate and jaw were compromised.
Normally, walking from El Tolar to La Soledad takes three hours;
Thiago's parents made the journey in just 60 minutes, because they
ran down from the anguish
of seeing the little boy in so much pain after the accident.
Thiago's parents had to carry him until they reached a spot where an ambulance was waiting for them.
Photo Facebook School 474 El Tolar.
Amalia Agüero, director of the School 474 of El Tolar was the one who facilitated Thiago's access to an ambulance that would take him to the Hospital de Belén.
On the Facebook page of the educational institution, where he disseminates how his students live and
the shortcomings of the community
, he recounted what happened when on Thursday around 1:00 p.m. one of the community members wrote to him because two children had been injured and they needed assistance. So Agüero called Emilio Rodríguez, from Civil Defense, who provided transportation from the La Esperanza area, which can be accessed by car, and from there they transferred the baby so that he could receive medical assistance.
“As at 2 in the morning Vilma, Thiago's mother called me, I did not communicate when they arrived in Belén because Mr. Emilio waited for them, accompanied them at all times and looked for accommodation for them and kept me informed.
I listened to every word, I felt his pain, which at one point I felt it was mine, he told me that the despair was such, because they took the little one out
passed out
, that they prepared as best they could and left, a journey that normally takes three hours. in one, because it was running and running, "said the teacher.
School 474 in El Tolar, province of Catamarca.
And he lamented: “My God, I don't know what I can do to avoid
so much suffering for them
. Practically the entire community accompanied them up the hill, because that's how they are, united, they love each other, they take care of each other and they protect each other. Today he sent me a message, to share it on the page. He asks me to correct it. Vilmita, there is nothing to correct, because she wrote it with words that came from her heart as a mother who received her son in her arms and did not know what state he was in. "
Thiago's mother wrote: “Today I want to thank all the people who collaborated and did everything possible to get my little son Thiaguito. As we all know that he had an accident, thank God he is recovering so on behalf of me, as the mother of my son,
I ask for a path to El Tolar
. No more suffering, no more pain. Today it is my turn to live as it can also happen to other families, but this time it was my turn. We want to remove the pain from our hearts, the fatigue from our shoulder. No more sadness, no more pain, we want the best for our community, for our children.
I have a wounded heart
”.
The road that Vilma mentions is a historical claim of the aboriginal community that lives in the El Tolar area, which is about
3,200 meters above sea level
and which is very difficult to access.
The message from Thiago's mother, the boy injured in El Tolar Park, in Catamarca.
“This hurts too much, a child has the right to health.
When will they care about these people?
I don't know what else to say,
I don't have drinking water at school
, you can't start classes like that, the children need drinking water, medical attention, what else has to happen? ”Asked Amalia Agüero, the school's principal. , distressed by the situation.
He added that the years pass and only promises are made of the road, but now the works are paralyzed despite the announcements.
"Tomorrow the machines will be working on the road, because
when misfortunes happen they send the machines
and then stop the work," said the teacher.
The walk to El Tolar, in Catamarca.
In a radio interview, Agüero said that Thiago's parents found him passed out and did not know what to do because there was no health officer in town, no person who knows what to do.
He said that the Ministry of Health assigned a health agent who serves hours, but who was not at that time,
was in other towns that he must also attend
.
In January of this year, local sources told
Clarín
, there was a week of a lot of rain, the trail that was in El Tolar was erased and they were
completely isolated and isolated
. The water entered the entire area and there was fear of what might happen, the same residents created an alternative path to divert the river from the road.
A year earlier, personnel from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Civil Works of Catamarca, led by Eduardo Niederle, together with personnel from the Provincial Highway, began work on the construction of the road to the El Tolar area.
They reported that in the first stage they will release the access entrance to the area of La Soledad and El Durazno.
Then
the works were paralyzed and nothing else was known
, reported from the local newspaper El Ancasti.
Governor Raúl Jalil during his visit to El Tolar in March 2021.
On March 11, the governor of the province of Catamarca, Raúl Jalil, visited the place and spoke with the chief Enrique Gordillo about the needs for El Tolar.
"The new path is a first step among the many that we have to take so that the community can improve its access to services and have
more and better opportunities,
" the president wrote then on his social networks.
And he added: “We woke up in El Tolar with the general manager of National Roads, Federico Stitz, and the Minister of Infrastructure, Eduardo Niederle, after touring the construction sector of the Pomán-Concepción route.
We have the projects ready and we are looking for the necessary financing for the new road to El Tolar ”.
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