Adrián Fernández and Sofía Parada’s honeymoon has turned into a nightmare. The Spanish couple, who traveled to Cancun, in Quintana Roo (Mexico), to celebrate their marriage, now faces the critical condition of Fernández, 39, and a medical bill of thousands of euros. Last Sunday, Adrián Fernández suffered cardiac arrest that took him to the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Cancún. To keep him in an induced coma, due to the severity of his condition, the medical center is charging the family 8,000 euros a day, about 145,000 pesos a day. Sofía Parada has begun to ask for help to cope with the situation.
The couple, originally from Alcira, in the Valencian Community, arrived in the Mexican Riviera Maya with their seven-year-old son last week. On May 5, just the day before returning to Spain, what Sofía Parada defines as “an ordeal” began. Around three in the afternoon, Adrián Fernández began to drown in the hotel pool. He was going into cardiac arrest. His wife points to a possible digestion disruption when entering the water as the cause. The lifeguards treated him and had to resuscitate him for 10 minutes.
“Adrián had to be assisted after the drowning by the hotel staff, being rushed to the nearest hospital,” the woman says on her Facebook account. “Once there they managed to resuscitate his vital signs, but he was still unconscious and they had to transfer him again to another hospital with more medical resources given the seriousness that he presented. To this day Adrián is still in a coma, he is in a critical phase.”
The diagnosis points to bilateral pneumonia due to waterlogging of 80% of the patient’s lungs, as reported by the Valencian newspaper. I raised. The seriousness of his condition prevents the family from transferring Fernández on a medical plane to Spain. Since he works in the intensive care unit of the La Rivera hospital, in Valencia, he considers that moving the patient now would endanger his life.
Added to the concern for Fernández’s health is the cost of keeping him alive. The family had taken out medical insurance, but Parada explained that in two days the maximum allowed in the policy was exceeded: “Travel insurance cannot cover the hospitalization costs anymore, since they are very high.” This has led the family to start asking for help to deal with the hospital bill, which grows every day.
Unlike Spanish public health, in Mexico there is a fragmented health system. Through insurance, tourists access private centers, whose cost of care has increased since 2016, according to the Federal Economic Competition Commission. Thus, while treating appendicitis can cost around 116,000 pesos (more than 6,300 euros) and a sprained knee 84,000 (4,600 euros), intensive care care skyrockets above 140,000 pesos.
“The Spanish embassy is aware of everything, but they tell us that they cannot do anything beyond providing information, but they cannot repatriate him to be admitted to a Spanish hospital as has been the case in a similar case in Thailand,” says Sofía Parada. . The woman’s father is already moving to Mexico to be able to care for the couple’s son and his daughter, whom the family says now needs psychological help. “Our family and friends are collecting to help us face all these payments, where anyone who wants to help, any donation, no matter how small, is of great help to us, we need to wake up from this nightmare and the three of us can return home, but above all that Adrián recovers.”
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