This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
July 3, 2024
Relatives of patients at the Sinaloa Pediatric Hospital in Culiacán receive free breakfast and meals every day through coupons supposedly given by the sons of Joaquín, El Chapo Guzmán.
With a total of 50 breakfasts and 50 hot meals, a group of well-organized people takes on the task every day from Monday to Friday to give an equal number of cards or tickets as people call them to relatives of patients who are hospitalized in the Sinaloa Pediatric Hospital and who are of limited resources or simply come from other entities of the country or other municipalities of the state of Sinaloa.
The works of “good” as they call them are of great help to people in need, since among the beneficiaries are day laborers from the state of Chiapas, who have a daughter of a year and a half who suffered a spinal fracture after a fall from a staircase in a room in the union of Villa Benito Juarez, in the municipality of Navolato three months ago.
They said that as a result of the problem they are unemployed, since they came from Chiapas hired on a temporary basis for three months, a term that has already expired and so far they have no money to continue subsisting, since they cannot work either because they have to take turns to take care of the girl and also take care of another baby in arms that they keep with them.
There is also a neighboring businessman from the city of Los Mochis, who has had his son hospitalized for months in the oncology area, for which he and his wife have to stay in a shelter and subsist with the little they have in order to continue by his 14 year old son’s side, whose treatment according to the doctors can be extended for up to a year.
Among these people are others who have to subsist on the support that people, restaurants, the hospital itself and lately the children of Joaquin Guzman Loera, El Chapo Guzman, who are considered leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, give them.
They offer them breakfasts ranging from scrambled eggs with ham, chicken with vegetables, chilaquiles, cakes and beans, as well as a drink consisting of horchata, hibiscus or tamarind water.
At lunchtime they offer steak, rice with stew, chicken broth and flavored water.
The beneficiaries said they know who the help comes from, but they don’t care, what interests them is that they are being supported and with that they save around 250 to 300 for two people for two meals in the morning and in the afternoon.
Some of the beneficiaries have been receiving the food vouchers for months, which consist of a card marked on both sides with the legend “courtesy” with a metallic hologram and the image of a pizza in pieces, while the other side has a QR code and the letters “coupon valid for one meal and one drink” as well as some images of pieces of pizza and the vouchers are exchanged in a fonda type kitchen located very close to the hospital.
