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GUIDE ON PAGES 18 - 22 ISSUE NO. 1837
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The people’s paper
17 - 23 Sept 2020
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CARING FOR CARLOTA THE PP of Vélez-Málaga has launched an appeal to all residents and the town hall itself to financially support the family of little Carlota, a four-year-old girl, who needs to undergo expensive treatment to save her limbs, which were severely affected as a result of a septic ‘shock’ she suffered in early August. Spokesman, Francisco Delgado Bonilla, has proposed that the town hall offer direct and exceptional help to this family, whose funds may come, for example, from part of the municipal budget that has not been used throughout the year. “Due to the effects of the pandemic, we have a lot of budget not spent: fairs, airplanes, festivals, the four million
in aid to the IBI, and so on. We must take advantage of it to help this family. I conveyed to the councillor that he has the PP at his disposal in this matter, because it is not the time to think, it is the time to do things, it is the time to help decisively,” he assured. At just four years old, Carlota is fighting a great battle. She has been admitted to the Hospital Materno-Infantil in Malaga for 40 days, where she arrived in a serious condition on August 4, after being diagnosed with sepsis, an infection in the blood caused by a bacteria that paralysed her organs. She went straight to the ICU and after a week with sedation and artificial respiration, she was able to start breath-
CARLOTA: Litte girl needs to undergo expensive treatment.
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PROOF of a panther roaming wild in Granada has come to light as a cyclist has managed to photograph the animal clearly and shared the image. However, now even the most incredulous residents of the town of Ventas de Huelma are worried. The authorities have warned that due to the speed of the animal, which is very elusive, the panther can constantly change its location and have asked residents to avoid going out into the fields or wooded areas until the Civil Guard manages to capture it. Through its Facebook page, the town hall has spread a message confirming that a resident spotted the animal on Tuesday, September 15, at approximately 2pm, “just 20 metres from his vehicle in
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Panther sighted WILD: A panther similar to this one has been spotted. the vicinity of the Cortijo de Noniles, located between Acula and Chimeneas.” A few hours later, late on Tuesday, the same sources reported that they are still searching “in the Barranco Hondo area from Ventas de Huelma to Chimeneas, where the panther has been sighted.”
The officers have increased the search for this panther in Ventas de Huelma, as a result of the warning given by some residents last Friday, September 11, when they claimed to have seen the animal on the road next to the castle and in front of the town hall.
ing on her own. Now, the girl and her parents, residents of Vélez-Málaga, fight against the consequences, the rush to save her limbs. The doctors who treat her at the hospital have infor med her that she suffered damage to her hands and feet, due to ischemia produced by microthrombi, for which they have to be amputated. “They told us that she would completely lose her right hand and her left foot, her right foot up to the heel and that in principle she would lose her fingers on her left hand,” said Jairo García, the father of the little girl. Given this, Jairo and Marina, Carlota’s parents sought a second opinion trying to ‘exhaust all possible resources’
and have contacted a private clinic in Valencia, where the famous doctor Pedro Cavadas has given them hope that it is possible to recover three of all four limbs damaged. “We sent her Carlota’s medical report and she made another one assuring us that she could save both her feet, and that her left hand had to be amputated, but that it could be recovered through reconstruction,” explains the girl’s father. Still, the cost to save her limbs is very high. For this reason, the minor’s parents have asked for help through social networks and have opened a Facebook page, ‘Ayuda para Carlota’ to raise funds for the payment and operation in the private clinic in Valencia.