NARCO-MAR. Chapter 50. The Chikungunya

 Máxima took Huevaso, the juvenile drug offender who now frequented the dispensary, to her office to harass her in collusion with Barbara, the assistant, who felt very hurt after the bitter argument they had the first day they saw each other.

-Have a copy of this complaint that I have made against you at the Santa Rosa prosecutor's office, now I am going to cut myself with a scalpel and I will say that you attacked me. It will be your word against mine, for sure you will go to jail for a couple of years.

Huevaso was surprised, he couldn't articulate a word, he read the paper several times. Then he with contained anger he told her-I don't like what you have done doctor. That was bad, very bad.

-The patients are witnesses that you told me, that you would take me out of town sparked.

- But that was not serious doctor.

-How was it not serious? Nor was it serious to get on the roof of the station wagon showing your knife, precisely to the place where I was?

- But nothing happened. I used to go up to ask Aristides for a whistle, and when he told me to get off, I did it without problems.

- Well now you know, they are on the line.

As he was on his way to catch the bus after work, the teacher approached him.

- Doctor, Huevaso told me that you have reported him to the prosecution.

-That's how it is.

-Doctor please do not put him in jail, there are enemies of the Huevón. They are the friends and relatives of those Huevón has killed.

- He has to stay away from me and I won't.

But days later, Huevón, assaulted a ranchera, but the owner was a man who in his province had been a bully, and mercilessly attacked him with a machete, he did not kill him because the machete had been blunt, he left him for dead and he left, miraculously Huevaso survived.

The problem between the assistant Bárbara and the doctor reached the provincial leadership of the Rural Health Network.

Carmelina, the new director, began to hesitate, Dr. Maxima perceived that the wife of her father's great friend was not she, she supposed.

-Did you know this was going to happen? Maxima asked him.

-I warned you that Barbara was a complicated person.

-But did you ever think that she was an unscrupulous woman, capable of allying with a murderous criminal to do her whims?

- But you have insulted her.

-I only answered her insults.

In those days a plague arrived from the Dominican Republic, the chicungunya. This plague caused unbearable bone pain and fever, it was transmitted by the Aedes aegypti, and the number of people who suffered from it was enormous.

In those days her parents came to visit her in San Medardo, and both Maxima and her parents fell ill.

At the same time, dengue fever was present, which she was impressed by when she saw one of her patients with a fever, who, while answering her questions, began to bleed from the nose.

He immediately proceeded to hydration, since the criterion that hemorrhagic dengue was one of the varieties collapsed and now it is known that any patient with dengue relapse, due to any of the other varieties, that had not been infected before, it progressed to dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Did she give you dengue before? Ç asked the doctor

- Yeah, it was like eight months ago.

We have to do a good rehydration is the first measure in the treatment of hemorrhagic dengue fever. At the same time I am going to transfer him to La Esperanza.

Meanwhile, at her house in San Medardo, her parents had to talk to them about Chicungunya.

One day like all the others when she was out running on the beach until she reached Santo Tomás, when crossing a rock, a tall black young man came out with a machete in hand.

In his backpack he carried a camera for underwater filming, the glocometer for detecting blood glucose, the dispensary, his blood pressure monitor and the stethoscope.

The greatest danger is that that individual in addition to his own things would want to rape her.

Without thinking about it, he ran to the sea and got into it. She knew that she was a good swimmer and the most expensive thing was the camera and she would not have anything wrong with her in the water.

The thief began to yell at her and threatened her from the shore showing her machete and she only got into the sea until the water reached her waist.

Then the man returned to the beach and continued on his way in the direction of San Mateo.

Upon arriving in Santo Tomás, he went to the police to file the complaint, and while he was doing so, a young man arrived who also came to report the man with the machete who assaulted him shortly after failing with Máxima.

He continued his trip to the El Faro dispensary. and in the afternoon he went to find out who that thief could be.

After asking again and again among the residents of San Medardo, apparently the one who attacked her with the machete, was a neighbor of San Mateo, who when he lacks money.

Upon reaching the neighborhood where she lived that was near the TV channel where she made programs, she discovered that she was on the run, she moved to Guayaquil to evade the police.

She found it incredible that anyone could threaten another with a weapon so she made a sign and painted it all over the place, Las Gaviotas, and San Medardo.