08/11/2021 7:59 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/11/2021 7:59 PM
Daniel Porro was a nurse and worked in a clinic in Neuquén.
After catching coronavirus in June 2020, he reported that he was lynched by his neighbors
who
set his house on fire and stole his car
.
His life since then has been an ordeal.
Days ago he
died of cardiac arrest
and his father said that "
he could never recover from that social rejection
."
The nurse, one of the many essential workers who put the body against the pandemic, had decided to go to his mother's house to sleep and lay down to rest,
but in the middle of the night his heart stopped
.
"One of his brothers passed by the room and he was already dead," said Miguel, his father, shocked.
"They were hard days," said Miguel, who recalled that his son was attacked by his neighbors and he was also fired from the job he had at that time.
Eventually, she started working in another health center,
but she could not leave behind what she had suffered
.
"Actually, from that day on, he could not sleep well again. He worked during the day and at night he went to bed
but could not sleep
. He suffered a lot and went to work with almost no sleep," he described to the newspaper LM Neuquén and added that his body endured "a year like this."
Lynched by his neighbors
"I am going through a situation of extreme violence against myself
for having had Covid-19,
" said Daniel Porro a year ago, when he reported having been attacked by his neighbors after being infected with coronavirus at the ADOS clinic where he worked as a nurse.
Porro added that he had already received threats from one of the neighbors when he had to isolate himself at home, in mid-June, for having tested positive for Covid-19 and was transferred to the Bouquet Roldán hospital, where he was discharged
after 14 days and with negative swab
.
The incidents began when a neighbor rebuked him on the street: “Go away because you are a positive case and
we are going to burn your house
.
We don't want people like you here in the neighborhood ”.
“I was beaten from all sides by several people and I still haven't recovered.
I lost consciousness and stayed in the hospital.
They took my car,
they stole it directly from me
and once I was in the hospital
they set me on fire inside my house
”, said the nurse at that time.
With the advance of the disease, the attack and discrimination against health personnel were repeated.
This situation
made it necessary to establish fines
and even days of arrest for those who commit such actions.
For example, the Buenos Aires Legislature approved in May a rule that establishes that those who discriminate or attack doctors, nurses or any health worker may be sentenced with up to 10 days of arrest or a fine of up to $ 17,120.
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