{"id":9790,"date":"2021-06-21T08:27:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2021-06-21T08:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:27:34","slug":"12904-ez-az-anyukam-a-koronavirus-aldozatainak-el-nem-mondott-tortenete-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/12904-ez-az-anyukam-a-koronavirus-aldozatainak-el-nem-mondott-tortenete-2\/","title":{"rendered":"12904. Ez az anyuk\u00e1m \u2013 A koronav\u00edrus \u00e1ldozatainak el nem mondott t\u00f6rt\u00e9nete"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, March 12, one of the kindergarten teachers in T\u00f6r\u00f6kb\u00e1lint, Magdolna F\u00f3rizsn\u00e9 Matuz, woke up with a cough. On that day, the number of new coronavirus infections in Hungary had just reached another daily record with more than 9,000 new cases, bringing the third and most severe wave of the epidemic close to its peak.<\/p>\n

Despite her morning weakness, Magdolna did not think about staying at home in their sunny family house, where she lived with her husband and youngest daughter. While the government had already been suggesting home office wherever it was possible, there was still on-call duty in the kindergarten: there were fewer children, but in the morning or afternoon Magdolna still went to work every day. The 50-year-old kindergarten teacher, who always paid attention to the harmony of her clothes and accessories, was not a sickly person anyway, she almost never went on a sick leave. She would be crawling with the kids at the kindergarten even at the age of sixty \u2013 she often joked with her own children in their twenties.<\/p>\n

Eventually, however, this Friday became Magdolna’s last day of work.<\/p>\n

As long as she could, she wrote a diary about her aggravating symptoms, which she shared with the members of the local Baptist community led by her husband. On Friday, after work, she still ran to the pharmacy for vitamins, her fever went up to 38 degrees by the evening, and, on Sunday, her coronavirus test was positive. On Wednesday, the antiviral drug Favipiravir seemed to improve her condition. A week after her first symptoms, she only planned to go for a lung X-ray to the hospital, but she was diagnosed with such severe inflammation that she had to stay. She was put on a ventilator on Monday morning and, in the afternoon, her family had already been told over the phone that Magdolna was dying, it was time to say goodbye.<\/p>\n

She died on March 26, shortly before midnight, exactly 2 weeks after the first symptoms had appeared. In Hungary, besides Magdolna, 274 people died on the same day, and nearly 30,000 have lost their lives since the outbreak \u2013 relative to the population, one of the highest number of people in the world. Who were the victims? And what happened to them from their first symptoms to their death? In recent weeks, Direkt36 journalists have spoken to people who had lost a loved one due to the coronavirus: parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses and friends. This is their story.<\/p>\n

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    Grieving family members shared more than twenty personal stories with us, from the different waves of the coronavirus epidemic, from the Hungarian capital and from rural villages, about people with chronic illnesses and previously completely healthy people, about older and younger victims. No matter how different the individual cases were, several families faced similar problems and difficulties during the course of the disease. There were some recurring elements in their stories:<\/p>\n

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    • When the first symptoms appeared, it was difficult to reach their GP<\/li>\n
    • Instead of rapid testing, patients often received unprofessional advice<\/li>\n
    • It was difficult to get information about the condition of the family member in the hospital<\/li>\n
    • The viral situation has made post-mortem administration more burdensome, both emotionally and financially<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Many family members feel sorrow not only because of the death of their loved ones, but also about the way they died. \u201cIt\u2019s not that we can\u2019t cope with a loved one dying of a disease,\u201d one of them said. “What is very painful that it was a fucking pointless death.”<\/p>\n