Sergio Rubin
08/22/2020 - 13:59
- Clarín.com
- Politics
From the Church they came out this Saturday to recommend "reasonableness" in the application of coronavirus prevention measures after a father from Neuquén was unable to fire his daughter who suffered from cancer because they prevented her from entering Córdoba, where she was hospitalized. that the man allegedly contracted COVID-19.
The recommendation was made by the president of the commission for the Pastoral of Health of the Episcopate, Bishop Alberto Bochatey , who considered that sanitary norms should be adapted to the "principle of proportionality" between prevention measures and humanitarian situations, without prejudice of the necessary care.
Bochatey cited a recent document from the Vatican Academy for Life that recalls that principle, as well as - he added - points out that, although life is a fundamental value, "a situation of zero risk is still an impossibility" so that " the cost of private and social life will also have to be taken into account ”.
Pablo Musse and his daughter Solange (35), to whom he could not say goodbye.
In dialogue with Clarín , Bochatey also highlighted the importance that the relatives of the patient have some kind of proximity with the due precautions , as well as that he receives religious assistance because "the human and the spiritual are very vital and in fact, they can help his recovery. "
Although the city of Buenos Aires is working on a protocol so that family members can fire their sick relatives - the Mater Dei sanatorium already has one - and a few weeks ago the hospital chaplains can provide assistance, the situation is very restrictive in many provinces.
Bishop Alberto Bochatey, president of the Episcopate's Health Pastoral Commission, spoke after the 35-year-old's death.
In the city it has also been allowed for a few weeks for priests to officiate at funerals , which must be in the open air and in which a maximum of five family members must participate, but not throughout the country family members can say goodbye to a being dear as they minimally wish.
On Thursday, during a meeting between the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, with the main religious leaders of the city, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Mario Poli, asked that a protocol be drawn up so that relatives can visit relatives who they live in nursing homes.
Cardinal Mario Poli met with Rodríguez Larreta to discuss the return of religious celebrations and request protocols for family visits in nursing homes. Photo: AFP.
On the occasion, Rodríguez Larreta announced that he would raise a proposal to the Casa Rosada so that from September the religious celebrations return to the temples of all the cults of the city, which includes in the case of Catholics the mass, although with limitations.
In this sense, it transpired that religious services may be held with a maximum of forty faithful , as long as they do not exceed 25% of the capacity of the place.