Tragedy in Argentina: 18 -year -old footballer died during knee surgery

Camilo Nuin, a 18 -year -old Argentine footballer, who died in a knee operation.

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Camilo Nuin18 -year -old footballer of the Argentine Club San Telmofrom the second division of Argentina, died Wednesday during a Knee operationas announced by the institution, which said that the causes of his death were not yet determined.

“With deep regret, we reported the death of Camilo Ernesto Nuin, player of our youth divisions and reserve, who today was going through a Surgical intervention”, Announced the club through its social networks, in a publication entitled 'San Telmo de mourning'.

Before the news, the club decided to close its doors during the day on Wednesday in Duel sign.

“Deep regret among those who share hours with himin the locker room, in each training, on each afternoon defending the colors of the club, ”said a statement, which explained that Nuin played 82 meetings in the lower categories of the team.

“We accompany your family, friends and colleagues in this difficult moment, making us a total disposition for what they need,” added the text.

According to the local press, the soccer player's surgery was due to injury in the meniscus and the cross ligaments of the knee, and His death occurred in the operating room.

Nuin served as a creative flyer and had started his career in the children's categories of Boca Juniorsbefore going to Independiente and later landing in 2022 in San Telmo.

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) expressed “Deep pain” for the death of the young man and transmitted their condolences to his family through a statement on their social networks.

The heartbreaking story of Camilo Nuin's father

He Camilo's fatherwhich bears the same name, shared with Telenoche The moments before the tragedy: “He came due to knee surgery, he had broken the cross ligaments, a surgery scheduled with a surgeon with which he had communicated several times and had a lot of confidence. And we came here, we woke up the most good, we talked about the club World Cup match yesterday, we came in the car laughing”.

The day prior to the operation was lived calmly. Father and son shared moments of laughter and memories, even minutes before Camilo entered the operating room. The father remembered that moment in detail: “We laughed putting the robe to enter the operating room Because he had put it backwards, we told him anecdotes when he was a boy. ”

An hour after the start of the intervention, the father received the first alarm signal. “He entered the operating room, at the time and peak they tell me: 'It was complicated, they are reviving it.' I did not understand, because how is you going to complicate, are you reviving a person who is operating in the knee? AND another automatically comes from inside and tells me 'he died' ”, The father said.

His family was shock. “I entered as a stunningthere are things like I don't remember, I saw the mother on the floor, I grabbed him to the doctor, I asked him what happened, why. I don't even remember the answers, and then I asked to let me see it, I saw it, I was with him, I hugged him, I gave him some kissesI promised some things that I would have asked me to promise him, with respect to his sister, his grandparents. ”

“I told him that I was going to remember it, that he was going to need it, but that he was going to be strong Like him, I know that I would have wanted me to be, and that although Life no longer has any meaning for me, I wasn't going to leave their loved ones without care. I promised, so I'm going to try to fulfill it, but I can't describe what it feels inside because it is a heartbreaking pain that one feels that You are standing, but you are literally dead”, He said

The family demands answers about what happened during the intervention. According to the father, the only professional who approached after the death of Camilo was the surgeon, who reported that the complication arose when extracting the second graft destined to replace the ligaments.

“The surgeon was the only one who spoke with us. He told us that, when he was taking out the second graft to replace the ligaments, they said: 'Pará, Pará, Paraá, who entered unemployment.' It does not understand why. Apparently, for what is rumored, it will have been an error of the anesthetist, of the application of anesthesia. I cannot certify it until after the autopsy, ”he said. Therefore, he said he will continue with the request for justice, because“ I think it was bad praxis. I am not sure because the autopsy was not done, but I am convinced of that, ”he reaffirmed.

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