Hansi González de Chaves, the Canarian who fell seriously ill during a trip to Mexico to visit his daughter, passed away this Sunday. Family sources confirmed that Hansi González lost his life on Sunday, May 12th, at 15:30, at the Metropolitano de Monterrey hospital from a cardiac arrest.
His family had issued an urgent SOS from the Central American country to ask for help. Hansi and his wife, Carolina Martínez, travelled from Tenerife to Mexico on March 14th to visit one of their daughters. A health setback turned the visit into a nightmare: he was admitted to a private hospital and the bill, for fifteen days of treatment, soared to over 90,000 Euros.
The islander ultimately could not overcome his health problems. After confirming the death, Carolina Martínez described her husband as “my partner for over 35 years, the best father to my daughters, and the love of my life.”
The family currently in Mexico indicates that they are preparing all the documentation to cremate him and take him back to Tenerife along with their daughter. “Unfortunately, this is not how we thought we would return,” clarifies Carolina Martínez.
[–>Hansi González’s wife wanted to publicly express her gratitude “to all institutions, media, and everyone who has shown interest in his health and has supported and encouraged me during these sad weeks.”
Hansi González de Chaves lived in La Orotava, although he was also closely linked to Puerto de la Cruz. He was well-known in Puerto, among other reasons, for having been in charge of the Taoro Casino.
The family has experienced a real ordeal in Mexico these days. The details of what happened were shared by their daughter, who lives in Mexico, through a crowdfunding initiative on Gofundme to try to raise funds. This is entitled Help to face the treatment and medication of my father. “I am his daughter María Victoria and I currently reside in the city of Monterrey (Mexico), where, after a year of not seeing them, my parents decided to come and visit me, with their trip scheduled from March 14th to April 25th,” the young woman began.
The family has experienced a real ordeal in Mexico. The details of what happened were shared by their daughter, who lives in Mexico, through a crowdfunding initiative on Gofundme to try to raise funds
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“On March 31st, already in Monterrey, my father started feeling unwell, very tired, coughing, and having trouble breathing. Thinking this could be a flu or cold, we went to a medical consultation at a hospital where he was prescribed several medications,” she continued. “After several days, on April 10th, my father deteriorated and returned for a medical consultation, this time at an external clinic, where he lost all feeling in his right leg for several minutes,” she points out.
According to her account, they then went to a private hospital, where they found several clots “and it was determined that his lungs were collapsed.” One of the next steps was to perform a surgical thrombectomy on the leg to remove the clots. “My father will need a new operation on his leg called angioplasty and the placement of a stent, which is very costly and exceeds 15,000 Euros, but this is necessary to save his leg,” she says. However, she points out that the lung condition is the most concerning.
“After 20 days in the private hospital, we had to pay a bill that exceeded 90,000 Euros,” recounted Hansi González’s family
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“After 20 days in the private hospital, we had to pay a bill that exceeded 90,000 Euros (1,620,000 Mexican pesos), having to borrow money and get into debt due to the serious situation,” she explains about the financial aspect. “My parents had taken out travel insurance; however, the insurance company refuses to cover the policy, claiming that my father’s illness was already present in Spain (nobody goes on a trip while sick),” she asserts, before adding that, “since we no longer have more financial resources, we had to transfer my father to a public hospital, where the care is not the same, and everything is much slower.”
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After the case became known, Canary and state institutions got involved to try to find a solution. They were in that process when his health deteriorated. Unfortunately, Hansi González could not recover.
