María Eugenia Gorostiza, Alejandro Dolina’s press chief, issued a desperate request for help through a video on Instagram, denouncing that the company Interassist Argentina left her father, Carlos Gorostiza, without medical coverage, in a critical situation at the IMG hospital in Punta Cana. The Latin American Network of Journalists and Producers (@laligadeprensa) amplified the claim with a post: “We demand “That Interassist Argentina fulfills its responsibility and urgently covers the hospitalization of the father of our colleague María Eugenia Gorostiza, who is in very serious condition at the IMG hospital in Punta Cana. The situation is critical and needs an immediate response.”
In the video, Gorostiza, visibly affected, said: “I am currently at the IMG Hospital in Punta Cana because my father had come on vacation. Last Wednesday he decompensated having influenza ‘A’, pneumonia and an intestinal bacteria in the diagnosis. After being treated for two days in intensive care, I traveled here and we were there until Tuesday when they had already discharged us. But at that moment in The hospital room decompensates with an apparent heart attack because he had pulmonary edema. We had coverage through Interassist Argentina until that day at 12 at night, but this happened at 1:30 p.m. before leaving the hospital. Right now we are without coverage, my father can’t come back. I spoke with the embassy and they told me that in the hospitals here it is very complicated unlike the hospitals in Argentina and that if you move from here you die. So I ask you to please take charge because my father was inside the coverage.”
Interassist Argentina responded in a statement: “We are aware of the case, we have coordinated and covered it from the first moment. It is not true that we have not attended to it or we do not respond, we have been covered for several days of hospitalization, we provided the extension provided for in the coverage and also an additional day outside of any obligation on the part of the company. In addition, we were in constant contact with the family. All coverage has a benefit framework and its scope, and in this Ultimately, the continuity of the coverage requested of us exceeds the scope of what was contracted. “We have overly complied with the corresponding coverage.” With this message, the company denies that the corresponding coverage is not being provided, stating that it has fulfilled its contractual obligations.
Meanwhile, María Eugenia seeks legal and diplomatic support to guarantee her attention, in a case that exposes the limitations of travel assistance. The dissemination of this journalist’s message is crucial to make the situation visible and press for a solution that ensures her father’s health.
