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He came to Spain in 1991 "and since then he has slipped to get a future for us, but also contributing to the wealth of this country: he picked tobacco, strawberries, asparagus ... Everything." His name was Mohammed Ziani, he lived in Talayuela (Cáceres), he was "a tough guy" of 59 years and on March 21, to the great surprise of his family, he got up "tired, he, who was a force of nature".

"We called the ambulances several times and they did not want to come. He went to the health center, and they treated him in the hallway, they did not even examine him in a room . He returned home and said: 'They have not paid any attention to me, they have treated like a lamb. 'They gave him acetaminophen, period. " Hours later, he already had little oxygen in his blood (a saturation of 87%) and had to go to a private clinic "to be paid some attention."

The rest of the story responds to the classic drama of the coronavirus, which has ceased to be news for so repeated in these incredible months in Spain and in many countries on the planet: pneumonia (warned in the private center) , first days admitted, worsening, ICU and death.

We know what has happened in all of Spain, but we think it may have to do with our origin

Najia, daughter of the deceased

The case is special because it affects an immigrant, already a Spanish national, and because of his family's complaint: "They did not take good care of us, and we know that it has happened throughout Spain, but we think it may have to do with our origin," says his Daughter Najia, a teacher education student who in those days, with her dying father and without the answer they expected from public health, cried all over Europe crying to come to the aid of her father: she was studying for a master's degree in Germany.

Ziani's history is that of any Moroccan immigrant in Spain in the last 30 years. In case, coming from Oujda, a population of half a million inhabitants just on the border with Algeria, south of Melilla. "I was four years old when we arrived," explains Najia, advised on her claims now by the Madrid firm Lex Abogacía. "We came directly to this area of ​​Cáceres, which is very famous for the number of people who work in the fields . "

There, Mohammed began to collect tobacco, asparagus and peppers, and both he and his family - in addition to Najia, in her twenties, are Khalid, 30, and Farid, 35 - who lived many years inside the harvest farms, as if were characters from The Grapes of Wrath or The Holy Innocents . "During all that time he was contributing to Social Security, from the first day, and was never hospitalized," says Najia.

He said he did not understand why, but that he was very exhausted at work, that he was not the same

The Las Lomas estate was for years his home, and after this the Finca Baldíos, with a poetic name. Then he settled with his family in Talayuela, a rural municipality of 7,000 people, 120 kilometers from Cáceres capital . "That was where my brother and I studied," explains the girl. Until the Covid-19 broke in. It was in the first week of the state of alarm when, to his surprise, Ziani began to feel "exhausted".

"He said he did not understand why, but that he was very exhausted at work, that he was not the same. 'I am no longer the same, I have less strength,' he repeated to us. Do you know the energy that someone who dedicates to That is brutality. That's when we were alarmed, "says her daughter.

At the end of the second week of confinement, his family began to call the attention line for the victims of Covid-19 in Extremadura. " My brother spoke several times with them and they said that they did not send us the ambulance, that they did not . In the end they sent her, after several calls, but at that time my father had already gone to the health center, because that morning is that He couldn't even move anymore, he was very bad. "

Ziani's experience at the Talayuela health center was, as he explained to his family, very negative: " They did not even examine him in the consulting room, nor did they hardly look at him, he told us. They gave him paracetamol and returned him to house . we knew he was fatal, was very rare that he could not move my father, who did not have the strength to that ".iban counting ... we were beginning to scare us . I was talking to him and I couldn't even breathe. "

"I was already with 87% blood oxygen saturation"

It was Saturday, March 21, the day after the declaration of the state of alarm, when health centers across Spain were taking on a barrage of visits from citizens with symptoms of either Covid-19 or anything else that resembled it.

Mohammed returned home, then, with his tail between his legs. He said that he had been treated fatally, that he had been ignored. "He lay down and hardly got up again. I was far away, in Germany, they

Very alarmed, Najia gets her father an appointment at a private center on Monday the 23rd. "And when he arrived he was already very ill. He was going with an oxygen saturation of 87%, he had severe bilateral pneumonia and we were told that the suspicion was Covid -19 ".

In the private center they tell him to go directly to the Campor Arañuelo Hospital in Navamoral de la Mata, just 15 kilometers from Talayuela. There, Mohammed is admitted quickly, and the family is surprised: "We thought that he had not been referred to the hospital at the health center because the hospital was completely overflowed, and not at all: there was no collapse, we saw several ambulances there. That is, if on the 21st they did not divert him from the health center to the hospital, it was because they did not want to. "

Mohammed was admitted on March 23, and on the night of Campo Arañuelo on the 26th they called the family: they had to transfer him to Cáceres, to the ICU of the University Hospital . The man arrives in Cáceres sedated.

In the new center they tell the family several times that it is in good condition, that they are going to lower their respirator, "they told us it was the one they had in better condition than those who were there . " Another common place of the pandemic: a few days later, on April 14, Mohammed Ziani dies.

"And we understand that the toilets do what they can, that the centers are as they are," concludes Najia. "But we did not understand why at the health center, when his symptoms were so compatible with coronaviruses, they did not refer him to Campo Arañuelo , who was very relieved."

The health services of the Junta de Extremadura, consulted by this newspaper, could not account for the assistance given to Ziani and denounced as deficient by his family, for data protection when asked by EL MUNDO, and "in the absence of claims administrative "that will start the family of the deceased, who is now trying to get the medical history advised by the Madrid law firm Lex Abogacía , specialized in medical malpractice.

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