07/14/2021 17:07
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 07/15/2021 9:42 AM
The tragic number of deaths from coronavirus in Argentina reached a number that, without a doubt, highlights that impact that since case one is an incessant sadness.
The 100,000 victims left by the pandemic carry a story, all of them, with only some
highlighted in their drama
by some detail that barely differentiates them from the others.
Ten of those stories in this year and a half of pandemic.
From famous personalities to those unknown heroes who fought in anonymity until the last second.
Most represent so many others who never met.
Guillermo, the first victim
Guillermo Abel Gómez was the first Covid victim in the country.
Guillermo Abel Gómez (64)
was the first of that long list.
He died on March 7, 2020, he was admitted to the Argerich Hospital.
Gómez had been a member of the Villero Peronista Movement in the 1970s, had gone into exile to France after being kidnapped and tortured by Triple A, and had returned to the country five years ago, according to a person close to
Clarín
.
Her daughter, who recently became a mother, still lives in Paris.
Guillermo had traveled to meet his granddaughter in February.
It is believed that there he contracted the virus.
Lara, "hospitalized" on the floor
The image of Lara Arreguiz, lying on the floor of the Iturraspe hospital in Santa Fe. She was 22 years old.
Lara Arreguiz was 22 years old, she was a veterinary student and an insulin dependent.
When she started to feel bad, she went to a hospital guard, but they couldn't treat her.
It happened in the city of Santa Fe and exposed the difficulties that the health system in that province went through at various times during the pandemic, as it happened in others.
Her mother, Claudia Sánchez, posted
a photo of Lara lying on the
hospital
floor
while waiting to be treated.
“We went in and Lara was already very sick, she was drowning.
I insisted three times on admission to please let us in because he was fainting.
They left us in a corridor, where patients with or without Covid passed by ”, said the woman about what she experienced at the Iturraspe Hospital.
Silvio, on the front line
The nurse Silvio Cufré (47) treated coronavirus patients without knowing it.
Silvio Cufré was 47 years old, he left his home on Thursday, April 9, last year and did not return.
The virus and its victims were beginning to show alarming numbers.
Silvio had received his
degree
as a
nurse
at the Naval Hospital in the mid-1990s. His first steps in the profession were taken at the Jeppener Health Center, 40 kilometers from his home in Alejandro Korn.
He had treated
coronavirus patients
and the clinic where he worked never warned him.
He infected his six children.
And the family was about to be lynched for bringing the virus to the neighborhood.
He was the first nurse victim of Covid-19, he died on April 18.
Mauro, national impact
The journalist Mauro Viale had a fatal outcome in a matter of hours.
The death of Mauro Viale was news as strong as it was surprising.
Unlike other cases of famous people who spent several days hospitalized and their progress or setbacks were monitored by the media, the situation of the
A24
journalist
had
a fatal outcome in a matter of hours
.
He was admitted to the Los Arcos sanatorium on Saturday, April 10, after being diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia after having contracted Covid-19.
The next day he died, at the age of 73.
The Spadas, a destroyed family
The Spadas.
Three family members died from Covid.
A man and his eldest daughter died on June 4 of last year in La Pampa.
That same day another of his daughters, a teacher, was admitted to intensive care.
After fighting the disease for 13 days, he also passed away.
Ricardo Spada (64) and Andrea (42) died first.
Then the victim was Mercedes (37).
The tragedy of the Spada family affected the entire Caleufú community, a town of 2,500 inhabitants located north of La Pampa.
Paola, her passion until the last day
Paola de Simone was a teacher and broke down while teaching a virtual class.
Paola de Simone, 46, and a professor at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE) for fifteen years, died on Wednesday, September 1, 2020 after a long battle against the coronavirus.
He broke down while teaching
a virtual class via Zoom
.
Paola was married and had a daughter.
He graduated in Political Science and International Relations from USAL, specialized in Human Resources and was a teacher at the UBA, and at the Di Tella University.
On Friday, August 28, he had written on Twitter the situation that had been dragging:
"I have been more than 4 weeks and the symptoms do not go away.
A friend of ours is complicated. My husband is exhausted from working so much at the moment (medical therapy and emergencies) ", he counted.
Miguel, a life in public health
Miguel Angel Duré was head of Intensive Therapy at the Perrando de Chaco hospital.
The last goodbye to Dr. Miguel Duré, head of Intensive Care at the Julio Perrando Hospital, in Resistencia (Chaco), was moving.
The 53-year-old man, who died of Covid-19, was a
renowned public health doctor
and teacher.
He had formed litters of doctors in his career in the Chaco hospital.
Duré graduated from the Don Bosco Catholic secondary school in Resistencia and from there he went to study medicine at the University of Corrientes, where he received his studies.
His entire career was in public health, which he entered almost 30 years ago.
He was a resident physician, head of intensive therapy and chief emergency physician at Perrando Hospital, which is the flagship hospital in Chaco and to which he dedicated his life.
He left a wife and two children.
His wife Analía, a pediatrician.
It happened in June 2020. Duré spent 21 days in the hospital.
Naim, just a 16 year old girl
Naim Soledad Cabral was 16 years old.
He died after catching the coronavirus in Corrientes.
In July of this year, another case became important.
The death by coronavirus of a 16-year-old teenager shocked Corrientes and the country.
The girl's mother, who had no previous illnesses, said that the adolescent "did not believe in the illness."
Naim Soledad Cabral died after catching the virus and spending a few days in the hospital.
In the midst of her pain, Karina, the mother of the teenager, said that her daughter did not take into account the warnings that she gave her about the risks of Covid.
“Naim wouldn't listen to me, I told her not to share tereré and mate with everyone
, but she did it anyway, I asked her not to hug me and kiss me, because I'm at risk and I didn't know who she had been with, and she told me that it was nonsense, that no one was sick, "said the woman.
Gonzalo, young and rugby
Gonzalo Fanjul was 23 years old, he lived in Tucumán and played rugby.
Gonzalo Fanjul was 23 years old, he
was first line
, he competed in the Intermediate and since Monday he had been connected to a respirator in a sanatorium in San Miguel de Tucumán.
"Chalo", as they called him, played on the front line and was part of the club's Intermediate squad, with which he had been training until mid-August.
The Tucumán Rugby Union confirmed the death of the player through a message on his Twitter account.
The Jockey Club also dismissed him with some emotional words.
"We are going to miss you every day, Chalo. Happy, good friend and colleague and always banking the stop. See you soon," the institution spread on social networks.
It happened on Tuesday, September 29, 2020.
Horacio, pain in the culture
Sociologist Horacio González died of complications from the coronavirus.
Consternation and regret in the world of culture caused the death of sociologist Horacio González, former director of the National Library, who had been hospitalized on May 19 of this year in the Güemes sanatorium
after having had Covid
.
He passed away in mid-July.
During that time he suffered ups and downs, he had improvements, but a few days before he died he was fragile and assisted by a respirator.
González, 77, was in a relationship with the artist Liliana Herrero and had developed a vast intellectual career and a prolific work.
He had also been the creator of Carta Abierta, the group of Kirchner intellectuals.
GL / AS
Look also
They warn that the application of two doses is "crucial" to protect against the Delta variant of the coronavirus
Another five subway stations reopen tomorrow: which are they and which lines are they on
