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This week on “NOVA Sunday” Tina Ivaylova and the Glasnews.bg team tell about an absurd documentary battle fought by a man from the city of Oryahovo. For four months, he has tried to honor the memory of his mother, who died in Italy of a coronavirus. However, in front of the Bulgarian institutions, it is alive. How did this happen?
On December 16 of last year, after a serious illness with the coronavirus, Ilian’s mother, Nadezhda Pandova, lost the battle against the disease and died in the San Severo hospital.
The woman, who is a medical worker, has lived in Italy for the past 20 years. Work as a nurse. For four months, the man has been looking for ways to bury her. There are also problems with the Bulgarian institutions.
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“I kept in touch with my mother every day. She called me in the morning to ask if I had taken my medicine. In the afternoon she called me again, in the evening she called me good night. Since the beginning of December, she said she had a cold. and that he had no strength. I told him to go to the doctor. He also told me that he had a high fever, “said Ilian Pandov.
A few days later, his condition worsened. The diagnosis is coronavirus. “On December 10, he called me for the last time through a Messenger video link and said, ‘Mom, I’ll talk to you one last time.’ His treatment didn’t work and he said it was the last time we knew each other.” Ilian Pandov explained.
Then doctors in Italy intubated her. On December 16, he lost the battle against the disease.
Since then, until today, the duel for Ilian has begun. Italy has not issued a death certificate for almost four months, and the woman’s body is still in a refrigerator at a San Severo hospital. Ilian does not have the financial means to collect her mother’s remains.
“Initially, funeral agencies told me that this would cost about 13,000 euros, because spending it after a coronavirus would be a dangerous burden and that is why it is so expensive. Then, from other funeral agencies it reached the minimum of 8-9 thousand levs, which I still do not have the opportunity to pay. It becomes a vicious cycle. Initially, the embassy told me that I had to send a notarized certificate of heirs. I went for a certificate of heirs, they laugh at me and tell me that without a death certificate they cannot issue me a certificate of heirs. Which should be the first, the death certificate or the certificate of heirs? ”He commented.
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However, Ilian managed to send a notarized statement to the embassy in Italy to prove that he was the sole heir. He also stated that he agreed to an official funeral there.
In our country, Nadezhda Pandova is considered deceased only before the National Institute of Social Security. From there they explained that Bulgarians living abroad must submit a declaration of life every year. The woman did not do it in the last days of the year, because then she got sick and did not meet the deadline. Then they declared her dead and suspended her pension, but in front of all the other institutions, however, she is alive because there is no death certificate. Therefore, your loan, for which you purchased life insurance, remains unpaid. Ah, Ilian can’t prove that his mother died.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs assured us that they were doing everything possible to help obtain the death certificate of the Bulgarian citizen who died in San Severo. The consulate in Rome also confirmed that they have known and worked on the case for several months.
Nadezhda Pandova is alive not only in front of the Bulgarian institutions, but also in the records of Italy.
“The municipality of San Severo informed me that when there is an official burial procedure, a death certificate is not issued in advance, but only when the body is buried. They also explained that in the context of the pandemic, many have died. This is a poor municipality located in southern Italy. They do not have many financial resources and that is why the Bulgarian citizen has not yet been buried and, therefore, a death certificate has not been issued, ”explained Ermelina Peycheva, head of the consular service in Rome.
According to her, these procedures are cumbersome and sometimes last for years.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Consular Service in Rome have committed to doing everything possible to speed up the formalities for the official burial and the issuance of a death certificate.
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