The crusade of an unemployed single father to save his son from serious degenerative disease
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Andrés Díaz sells fruits, tea towels or records with movies. Those are the only jobs he can keep, as he spends full time caring for his son Kairo, who has lipofuscinosis, a degenerative disease that causes the accumulation of "lipofuscin", a mucous material inside the brain, and that the organ cannot remove. Through a video that was uploaded to YouTube last April, Andrés made a desperate call for someone to help him with the health of his son. Currently, lipofuscinosis is not part of the Auge plan, and although it receives attention from the public system, it has to pay a considerable sum of money for the child's medications. She went to the Telethon, but the institution only handles rehabilitation cases and not degenerative diseases like that of her son. However, he received help and learned some techniques to massage and stimulate the minor, they provided him with anti-decubitus bedspreads and a wheelchair, implements that, if they had not been on hand, would make the task of living day to day more difficult.
