patricia (down from who decreed in 1811 that the Indians fail to pay tribute to Spain) his father chose to be a rural teacher, and so the boy grew up playing in the woods, along the river Coronda of Santa Fe Received a doctor, had to go to Paraguay after daring to talk about job security in the Chaco, in the military government. Soon war broke out between that country and Bolivia and Maradona scored as a medical orderly, but because they saved lives on both sides was suspected of espionage and held in Asunción. However,
cell would become head of the Naval Hospital in that city, someone understood what was Indeed this man who did not see the pain respect borders. In those years, which also dealt with a leper, as fate would lose his only girlfriend, a victim of typhoid fever.
Esteban Laureano Maradona decided to come to Buenos Aires to put an office in Lobos, where his mother lived, after visiting his brother in Tucumán. When the train stopped at the station
Guaycurrí, in the Chaco forest, it happened that a native was calving difficulty and his life was in danger. Saving it knew of the shortcomings of this poor shantytown without electricity, running water, gas or doctor. The train whistle soon announce the resumption of their march. By splitting the training, I would with a passenger less.
Half a century later, the doctor is still there Maradona. And there are still the same services, even in the humble cottage from which provides free to our fellow Indians, the same as the first one shantytown around threatening to kill the doctor, badly used to be duped by whites. Maradona, however, were opposed only altruism and knowledge to deliver them from cholera, syphilis, leprosy or Chagas' disease. And so tuff, matacos, and pilagás mocovíes Piognak call it "doctor god." Maradona
taught them to make bricks and work the land. Les sought drinking water, traced paths, denounced the exploitation to which subjected the sugar capital, founded a colony, a bilingual school for Aboriginal
(the first in the country), helped the progress of that people now called Estanislao del Campo, and without accepting any political office ever.
At 91 years, his health was broken and a nephew of Rosario brought him to his hometown to assist you. The country at that time was aware of another Maradona, one goleaba in Mexico. In Rosario, Esteban, a doctor of the poor, field anthropologist, naturalist, student of the flora and fauna,
writer, researcher, and above all good people die when close to meeting the century. Might have been her pride symbolic recognition of the West, as the prizes being offered the UN and other institutions when everything was done. But there were other joys, as evidenced by his words:
"One day I was dying and started to fire from the Indians, with a mixture of pride and happiness, because they dressed, were wearing shoes, were instructed. ( ...) I think I did anything else but my duty. " While he could, he delivered them from malnutrition and pain. Maradona, the hand of God doctor.
"is said to live in austerity, humble
and severally, is to resign oneself.
Actually, this is done entirely. "
(Dr. Stephen L. Maradona)
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