The ordeal of a Panamanian soccer player Amarelis De Mera will soon end, after it was announced that he needed surgery to improve his quality of life it will be practiced.
This was said by the director of the National Institute for Women, Nellys Herrera in less than 15 days the paperwork will be ready so the surgery can be done.
De Mera appreciated the outpouring of support and affection after information about his health became public.
“Thanks to God and the government for coming to my house to tell me this great news through a great person, Nellys Herrera,” said the athlete.
A few days ago, the attacker called the precarious health situation he suffers due to a complication on his esophagus, which was aggravated by the lack of social security.
“I’m almost slowly dying and I have to keep waiting. I have been taking liquid through a tube for 1 month and I’m 112 out of 130 pounds,” he revealed.
Faced with this situation, De Mera remembered that without social security Everything is more complicated, so a law that recognizes football players as workers needs to be adopted urgently.
In this sense, former player Roberto Brown expressed his regret that they were the ones who should have passed the law that promulgated it professional athletes workersthey are not.
For his part, coach Noel Gutiérrez emphasized that this is part of what must be overcome in terms of player’s social insurance and professional soccer players, and all professional and elite athletes.
Also Juan Ramon Solis He reminded that professional football players, who play in the local league, do not have access to hospital care at hand, because they do not have a proper affiliation with HSS.
Source: Panama America
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