Story By: Jonathan Macias, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash
Newsflash/Hospital El Pilar Barcelona
This is the moment an elderly man recovering from coronavirus at a Spanish hospital tells his wife “I love you more than my life” during a video call with the help of nurses.
The clip was recorded in the El Pilar Barcelona hospital in the city of Barcelona in the autonomous community of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain.
The footage shows a man named Fidel, whose age has not been reported, talking to his wife Antonia on a video call helped by two nurses called Miriam and Eva.
Arantxa Mena, a spokeswoman for the hospital told Newsflash: “The patient has spent 16 days in the hospital with COVID-19 and his development is positive. In the next days, we will start the procedures to transfer him to the nursing home where he lives.”
The man is heard talking to his wife saying: “Antonia, oh please! Antonia I love you very much. I love you more than my life. My life doesn’t matter but you do!”
A nurse is heard saying: “Don’t cry!”
Then the visibly emotional man confuses the year of their wedding and says: “I got married in 1929.”
A nurse corrects him and says: “You were born in 1929!”
According to Mena, the hospital has organised a team called ‘Equipo de Humanizacion’ (Humanisation Team) formed by members of the hospital staff who help patients suffering from COVID-19 to make contact with their relatives using tablets whilst taking the necessary precautions to prevent contagion.
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