Overview

• The girl, Ema, has a longstanding brain condition akin to hydrocephalus and had previously undergone multiple operations in Argentina.
• After a sudden complication, the Buenos Aires clinic required an upfront cash payment for urgent surgery that the family could not provide.
• Rafa Cotelo contacted Edinson Cavani, who arranged for a friend who runs a tanguería near the clinic to deliver a box or suitcase of banknotes.
• Surgeons performed the operation, and the doctor told Cotelo she was expected to be fine within a few hours, according to the father's account.
• Cotelo recounted the episode on the TV program Polifonía, and subsequent reports identified Cavani as a Boca Juniors striker formerly at Napoli; no independent hospital statement has been published beyond the surgeon’s comment as relayed by the father.