«Right now I am very afraid to go out, because of the consequences beyond the hospital.
There are people who are very crazy and can come and beat me up.
I have received a lot of threats."
Begoña Suárez, the 25-year-old Andalusian nurse pointed out by the Generalitat for criticizing in a video the requirement to prove knowledge of Catalan to obtain a sanitary position in Catalonia, recounts in this message sent to a colleague to whom EL MUNDO has had access the state of "anxiety" in which she finds herself plunged after the harassment to which she has been subjected both in the networks and at an institutional level.
"I am not going to leave the contract, but I am processing the leave due to stress," says this woman from Cádiz who has been working in the Pediatric area of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital since last July and who is receiving "psychological support" seeing itself surpassed by the nationalist accusation to which it has been exposed and which has been led by the Catalan Government itself through its Minister of Health,
Manel Balcells
.
«Statements like these are intolerable in a public servant.
From the center to the Department of Health we will get to the bottom of the matter.
We open a file.
The health system must guarantee care in the language of Catalonia," the minister cried yesterday after a mob of Twitter users had launched the public lynching of the nurse for stating in a video recorded three weeks ago and released yesterday : «To get the fucking opposition we have to have the fucking C-1 of Catalan.
Well, it turns out that my mother is going to take the C-1 level in Catalan because I'm not going to take the C-1 in Catalan».
"That they go to work at home and speak their language", "he would exile you to your fucking community or he would shoot you and leave you in a fucking ditch, daughter of the great whore" or "what he has to do is go to his loved Cádiz and not look for work in Catalonia and, if you can't find it, screw it" are some of the messages addressed to the young health worker, who is contractually linked to the Generalitat until March 31, as this newspaper has been able to corroborate. through Vall d'Hebron sources.
EL MUNDO has also had access to the collegiate card of the health company, which links it to the Professional College of Nursing of Seville.
Yesterday, her training to practice was questioned because she was not registered in Catalonia.
The nurse's membership card.
Begoña says she feels the need to "apologize to all those who have been offended by her video" for which she claims to be "very sorry."
This nurse is part of a contingent of 300 health workers who arrived last summer from Andalusia to fill vacancies in different reference hospitals in the Catalan health system.
Already last year, another 1,000 nurses from the same autonomous community arrived in Catalonia and received an unpleasant reception when they were pointed out by the separatist entity Platform for Language for not knowing Catalan.
The organization -famous for spying on children at recess to check what language they spoke- asked the Generalitat "how will Andalusian nurses guarantee care in Catalan for patients".
«We have not come to invade Catalonia,
We come to sustain your healing.
It seems a shame to me.
It hurts the people we have come to.
Are they going to be without nurses and the people here dying because they don't have care?” Javier Rodríguez, a nurse from Granada who came to work at the Josep Trueta hospital in Girona, protested in statements to this newspaper.
«The Generalitat cannot tolerate such serious catalanophobic statements and acts of linguistic supremacy.
We call on the users of the Vall d'Hebron to denounce the violations of the linguistic rights they suffer", proclaimed the self-styled Catalan NGO.
One of the threats to the health.
"There is a linguicide underway", exclaimed from Brussels the former president of the Generalitat,
Carles Puigdemont
, who maintained that "hatred towards the Catalan language is a constant among many Spaniards".
«Some officials are militant in catalanophobia.
They offend us, they insult us and we pay them their salary”, added the fugitive from the Spanish Justice to amplify the attack on the Cádiz nurse.
Not even the designated health worker found shelter among her guild mates.
The Official College of Nurses of Barcelona considered the video "unacceptable" and demanded that Catalan health centers "guarantee the right of the people treated to be able to use their language to prevent situations like this from occurring."
"It has been shown that caring for a person in their language has benefits for their health," they said.
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