Irving Juanico Vázquez is 25 years old, likes math, football and cycling. Since 25 December he has been in a hospital in Marseille, France, due to an infection that caused organ failure and a small stroke.
From October, Irving was in Granada, Spain, on a research stay that would end on January 10. He is an engineer in Renewable Energy at UNAM.
On 22 December he traveled to Marseille spending Christmas with a friend, but began to feel unwell about what he was admitted to the Européen Marseille hospital, his sister Veronica narrated in a video posted on social media. She and her mother are in France.
Irving was diagnosed with meningococemia with septic shock which caused a fulminant purple and meningitis in his head and spine. All of this caused organ damage, the most affected was one of his kidneys.
He also stopped generating platelets so he had to receive transfusions. Although platelets begin to increase slowly and the kidney has responded, Irving has an infection in the lungs, continues to develop a fever, and had a small stroke.
“Irving’s health is still delicate right now, thank God it has been moving forward, very little, but it has been moving forward,” her sister said in a video.
He adds: “Doctors tell us it’s a very slow process and we don’t despair because it can be more than a month.”
For this reason, Irving’s family and friends have begun collecting and selling different items to raise money for his mother and sister’s rent and food payments and also for the medical expenses that result, because the insurance he has as a student ends on January 10, when Irving was due to return to Mexico.
“Thanks to the supports we can pay rent, food. All the donations from people who know us and those who do not know us are basically for the expenses that come to us to be able to accompany my brother,” Veronica recounted.
He explained that she and her mother are currently staying in a room in an apartment in Marseille, but on 6 January they will have to leave and look for another. He added that the most expensive thing is to eat, so it is best to be in a place where they can cook their food.
Communicating with doctors and people is also complicated. Until this weekend, Irving’s friend helped them with the translation “but she’s back in school on Monday.”
Another person from the MexicanS Association in Marseille will help them with the translation.
Veronica thanked mexicans in France for their support, friends, family and people who have not known them so that they can be with Irving while he recovers.
Irving’s family is originally from Guerrero. This January 4, 5 and 6 will sell kings’ threads in Chilpancingo. If you want to help them but you’re not from the state, you can do so through a deposit to the accounts of one of their relatives.
Banamex.
Card number: 5204 1646 0885 1298
Interbank Clabe: 002260700411747715
Account in the name of: Veronica Juanico Vázquez
Banamex.
Card number: 5204 1601 4117 5096
Clabe Interbank: 002260017379464247
Account in the name of: Virginia Vázquez Pileño
Bancomer.
Card number: 4152 3135 4417 1866
Clabe Interbank: 012270015648442464
Account in the name of: Maximino Juanico Ramírez
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