Miguel Cappiello, one of the men who knew Hermes Binner most closely, highlighted the strategic vision that the recently deceased former mayor and former governor of Santa Fe had so that all people from Rosario could have access to health care. “He changed history,” he summarized.
Binner died on Friday afternoon in a Casilda sanatorium, where he was hospitalized from acute pneumonia. The wake was held on Saturday morning right there and then his remains were cremated in the San Lorenzo cemetery.
“I met Hermes for health, because the two of us worked together in the Rosendo García sanatorium. He was an anesthetist and I was doing urology,” Capiello told Todos en la Ocho, by LT8. Then life brought them together in public health, when Binner took over as secretary of Public Health for the municipality designated by Mayor Héctor Cavallero. At that time Cappiello worked at the Carrasco hospital.
“Binner saw things that one did not see. He thought about guaranteeing the right to health and that this right would be equitable for all citizens,” he said. In 2019, Cappiello wrote a book in which he tells much of his relationship with the late leader and socialist leader.
In his statements this morning, he said that “everything that was done in the area of public health has to do with the strategic thinking” of Binner and recalled that thanks to his management, Carrasco ceased to be a hospital for infectious and contagious patients to become a general hospital.
According to Cappiello’s consideration, Binner was the hinge that changed the old medical care for the new health model. “We were going down the stairs of the old Ministry of Health, Hermes looked at the monument to the well and said: what are we going to do with this.” Then she launched the projects and sent Cappiello herself to Israel to study alternatives. “On October 3, 1997, when we inaugurated the Cemard enclosure, Binner said that Rosario was less ashamed and more proud. And the truth is that it was a pride because she is a model that was imitated in Mar del Plata and later we also did one similar in Santa Fe.
Cappielo stressed that Binner’s great value was to change history and allow Rosario people to count from primary health care to a bone marrow transplant.
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