The individual resided in Barcelona. “A van brought him and took him, and only the four steps to his house took him 20 minutes,” his neighbors say.
A 48 year old man that lives in Barcelona, Spainand suffers from overweight with a health deteriorated, was rescued this Friday by the firefighters after the notice that he had fallen at home and was carrying several days without eating or drinking. According to the sources of the case, the individual had not left since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic started in 2020.
The rescue of the firefighters, carried out after the intervention of the Medical Emergencies System (SEM)hard seven hours and it was carried out through a excavatorwhere the workers progressively removed different types of waste through a window next to the street.
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In this context, they point out that men, who are overweight by more than 250 kilossuffers from Diogenes syndrome: a pattern of behavior characterized fundamentally by a extreme abandonment of self-care, both hygiene and food and health that leads him to live in unsanitary conditions. It affects, above all, people older than 65 yearsbut normally it is usually a disease that appears as a consequence of other previous pathologies, such as obsessive-compulsive personality disorderor for other aggravated behaviors such as collecting,
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Firefighters made contact with the man after the removal of large amount of garbage inside the housesuch as bags, plastics and boxes.
One of the neighbors adjoining the man’s home, known as Alejandro.B, described the situation and revealed how the man lived before the pandemic: “A van brought him and took him, and only the four steps to his house, on the ground floor, cost him 20 minutes”. “They spoke to him on the phone and they were satisfied when he told them that he was fine,” she added in relation to the previous actions of the police and doctors.
According to the neighbors, the alarm signals in relation to Alejandro.B’s state of health occurred repeatedly: the consistorywho started treating his health since 2003, was reported at least four times between 2015 and 2022. “There is no indication of unsanitary conditions or a bad smell, the neighbors only alert us that they don’t see it”, says a journalist from the area.
After the rescue, Alejandro B. was transported to the Bellvitge hospital without danger of life. According to the sources of the case, “it is necessary to analyze if he can return home or if he needs to be admitted to a social health center”.
Source: Ambito
