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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I am sorry to pass along the news of the tragic passing of
our compañera Margarita Posada, a leader of PHM El Salvador and of the
Salvadoran social movements for the right to health. That her death was a
violation of the right to health should make us recommit to achieving Health
for All, Now!<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Here is a quick English translation of the notice published
in ElSalvador.com Another article appears in Diario Latino,
<a href="https://www.diariocolatino.com/margarita-posada-deja-legado-en-la-defensa-de-los-derechos-humanos/">https://www.diariocolatino.com/margarita-posada-deja-legado-en-la-defensa-de-los-derechos-humanos/</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN">Margarita Posada, a health activist,
died in an ambulance after being refused admittance at hospitals<span></span></span></p>
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hospitals requesting she be given medical attention, but she was turned down at
every one. Posada was coordinator of El Salvador’s NGO coalition, the National
Health Forum.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span></span></span></p>
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<pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN">Margarita Posada was an activist who tirelessly raised the flag of the right to health. However, on Monday morning, she died in an ambulance because no public hospital would receive her to give her the medical attention she needed.<span></span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN">Margarita suffered from cancer, and her condition had worsened for several days.<span></span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN">Sources close to the family stated that early Monday morning her health declined markedly compared to previous days, so they decided to call an ambulance to transfer her to a hospital.<span></span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN">They went to several public hospitals pleading to be treated, but she was not received in any. The last one they went to was the Women's Hospital, but she was turned away there as well. A few minutes later, she died in the ambulance.</span><span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" id="gmail-tw-target-rmn"><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN">Martín, her spouse, pleaded for his wife to be cared for: "If we had not wasted time in reception, perhaps she would not have died."<span></span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN">“Margarita died in an ambulance, seeking medical attention, a human right for which she fought tirelessly, and which was denied to her. She was not received at any of the hospitals where she sought the care she needed. How much cruelty exists in our reality, ”wrote Ángel Ibarra, former Minister of the Environment.<span></span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span>“We regret to report the death of our coordinator Margarita Posada, tireless social leader, committed to communities, a brave woman who fought for the most vulnerable.<span></span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span>The vanquished will never surrender! Compañera Margarita will live forever! <span></span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span>- National Health Forum (@FNS_OficialSV) July 13, 2020<span></span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN">Posada, 68, was director of the Association of Salvadoran Community Promoters (Aprocsal) and coordinator of the National Health Forum (FSN).</span><span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" id="gmail-tw-target-rmn"><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN">Several social organizations have expressed their regret over the death of Posada, whom they identify as "a great fighter for the defense of human rights."<span></span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></pre><pre style="margin:0in 597.75pt 0.0001pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN">Margarita Posada was part of the guerrilla of the Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN), as a cadre of the Popular Liberation Forces (FPL), an organization that she joined at the age of 17, according to an interview published by the digital newspaper <i>The Lighthouse.</i></span></pre>
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