Estrella Pichardo has employed a billboard subsequent to the Real de la Feria to denounce her drawback. She seems dressed as a bullfighter subsequent to the Puerta del Príncipe de la Maestranza in Seville, one other picture of her naked again with the scars from the operations and an X-ray “No I can proceed with this ache, I urgently want an operation to have the ability to dwell in peace and usually”
Estrella Pichardo is 44 years previous and lives within the Seville city of Coria del Río. Her despair because of the again ache she suffers from has led her to demand an operation on the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in a method by no means seen earlier than. She has employed a billboard during which she seems dressed as a bullfighter subsequent to the Puerta del Príncipe de la Maestranza in Seville, one other picture of her again uncovered with the scars from the operations and an x-ray that exhibits her damaged vertebra , in response to her.
Her medical historical past started 17 years in the past when she underwent surgical procedure for a herniated disc in non-public healthcare. She was fantastic for some time, though shortly after the ache returned. In whole she has been intervened 6 instances. Her fourth operation was already carried out on the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville.
It is just not the one factor that he suffers from, the issue of the vertebra, he additionally has osteoporosis, discopathy and osteoarthritis. The worst of all got here “two years in the past with insufferable ache”, says Estrella Pichardo, who assures that after nearly a yr making an attempt to get an appointment, she ended up within the emergency room in January 2022. “I took an X-ray carried out by my household physician during which it says {that a} attainable vertebral fracture may be seen”, he explains. At that second, he was discharged and morphine was used as remedy.
Without resolution
In February 2022, a neurosurgeon from the Virgen del Rocío instructed him that “the vertebra is clear.” Following the story, in March 2022 she took a brand new MRI to her neurosurgeon on the similar hospital. “According to the skilled, the vertebra is just damaged on the web site that she fractured herself to have the ability to take away the electrodes. But she provides that she was re-welded and it isn’t damaged,” she says.
However, Estrella continues to insist that “it’s damaged on the opposite facet and it might have been as a result of osteoporosis”. to be operated on, I am unable to take it anymore”, she begs, whereas recounting that the neurosurgeon says that “it’s unfeasible”. She presents him with a report from the rheumatologist dated September 28, 2022, during which he says that it’s attainable to function “now the bone It may be screwed, later I do not know”.
The neurosurgeon presents her one other thermo-coagulation and guarantees to name her earlier than December 27, 2022. Estrella accepted. Even although she needs to be operated on. However, nobody calls her. The anesthesia exams that she had carried out expired on December 27. “I am unable to take it anymore, I am unable to work, I haven’t got cash, I needed to promote my father’s objects,” she admits by means of tears. “It’s not the docs’ fault. They cannot take it anymore and neither can I”, says Estrella who asks the well being system to assist her. On December 28, she filed a declare type with the SAS. She now she solely hopes that the lights of the go well with of the fence of her can attain … Whoever takes away that ache as soon as and for all.
well being response
For its half, the Ministry of Health assures that Estrella “has been intervened on a number of events in an exterior middle.” She has come to the Virgen del Rocío Neurosurgery service after these operations didn’t have the anticipated outcome for her. In not one of the diagnostic exams carried out, the final one a PET CT in August of final yr, there may be proof of a vertebral fracture.” “Therefore, no intervention is deliberate on the Virgen del Rocío hospital and what’s pending is of a brand new check-up appointment because of the again ache that he manifested.”