CITY OF MEXICO (apro) .- Family members filed a formal complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) against the refusal of the Executive Commission for Victim Care (CEAV) to give them medical attention, since they have developed various illnesses. after the disappearance of their loved ones.
This Thursday, 11 relatives of the disappeared, accompanied by members of the civil organization Idheas, Litigio Estratgico en Human Rights, met with the head of the CNDH, Rosario Piedra Ibarra, to whom they presented the complaint for acts and omissions of the CEAV that constitute violations of their human rights.
The complaint – filed by seven women and four men, between 48 and 84 years old – states that they have developed serious illnesses and health conditions after the disappearance of their relatives, such as cancer, diabetes and glaucoma.
After noting that in 2019 the father of a missing person died of cancer without any medical attention from the CEAV, the complainants highlighted that, like that person, they developed health problems derived from their search activities.
They also accused that the CEAV has refused to provide medical support to the victims on the grounds of the alleged non-existence of a causal link between the disappearance of their relatives and the health problems they have developed.
In a statement, Idheas explained that although the cause of the health problems afflicting the victims cannot be precisely determined scientifically, in the face of this uncertainty, the pro persona principle must operate in their favor.
Given the institution’s refusal, the organization and the victims asked the CNDH to evaluate the omissionate and negligent behavior of the CEAV officials, who have been identified and have repeatedly denied health care to these people, have put them at risk and they have violated the Constitution, the General Law of Victims and the International Convention against Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations.
The family members asked Piedra Ibarra for precautionary measures to guarantee medical attention to the victims, particularly in favor of a mother who has been diagnosed with stage two breast cancer.
In the same way, that it immediately and urgently convene a work table with the participation of the victims and their representatives, experts, doctors and psychologists with a human rights perspective, officials of the Ministry of the Interior and the CEAV, to resolve structurally the situation of the victims of the complaint and many others who are in the same situation.
They pointed out that they are proof of a greater problem that affects all victims of disappearance, so they ask the CNDH to leave the complaint open so that other people can be incorporated, document the violations of their rights and review their medical situation. .
By assuming as its own the communiqué of the victims and Idheas, the CNDH confirmed that it would integrate the respective complaint file and, after analyzing the case, issue the pronouncement that according to the corresponding law.
At the working meeting, Piedra Ibarra was accompanied by the executive secretary, Francisco Estrada, and the director of the First Visit, Paolo Martnez Ruiz, while on behalf of the victims were Mrs. Araceli Salcedo, Mara Esther Montero and Sandra Luz Romn , on behalf of the 11 complainants, who were attended by the director of Idheas, Juan Carlos Gutirrez.
Araceli Salcedo, from the Orizaba-Crdova Families of the Disappeared Collective, reported that last year she was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer, and that the CEAV refused to provide her specialized care.
Fernanda Rub Salcedo’s mother, who disappeared on September 7, 2012, explained that within her group, which includes about 360 mothers of victims of disappearance, there are several cases that register serious illnesses, for which she asked Piedra Ibarra to maintain open the complaint so that more people affected by the absence of their relatives are integrated into it.
Sandra Luz Romn said that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 and, despite being referred to the National Cancer Institute, she has had to pay for the costs of her treatment.
He said that in the search for missing persons he had a fall of more than six meters in height that caused two herniated discs, a surgery that he also had to solve.
Both women considered it unfair that the CEAV does not meet their demands for support for medical care, when they have been allies in locating bodies in clandestine graves.
For her part, Mara Esther Montero maintained that for a year and five months, when her husband died, the support that she had for food and house rent was withdrawn, so she is currently homeless, while she is still living. wait for your child to show up.
After listening to them, Piedra Ibarra recognized that they are not the first relatives of the disappeared who complain of serious illnesses, and he promised to carefully review the complaint and resolve accordingly.
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