Dedicated to Angel, Lili's father

The father of one of the principals, he indicated in his last wishes to make a donation for the printing of the first edition of 'Hospitaller', the illustrated story.

Ángel Quintero, father of one of the five UCI Paediatrics' clients, defined among his last wishes to support the transformative potential of culture, making a donation to the project that was invested in the first printing of Hospitalthe picture story created by El Hematocrítico and illustrated by the Canarian artist Cynthia Hierro. “He was my father, so he knew from minute one of the projects I was involved in, I told him about them at weekend meals, because I couldn't tell him about the day-to-day work as a nurse in the ICU,” explains his daughter and client, Lili Quintero.

A day labourer and “a country boy”, in the words of his daughter, Angel, however, had the vision to accompany Lili in this process with the concomitance, to listen to her and, moreover, to help her to be able to carry out one of the three works that have come out of this rich journey, based on exchange and collaboration. Born in La Gomera, at a very young age he emigrated to Venezuela in search of new opportunities, where he connected with and relied on his older brothers and sisters and the colonies of Spaniards and Canary Islanders to prosper as a freight forwarder in the Latin American country. At a friend's wedding he met Carmen Luisa, Lili's mother, and years later, “due to health issues, they were recommended to move to an area with a more suitable climate, not so dry and hot, and we returned to Tenerife in 1975, where they set up a mini supermarket, or neighbourhood shop as they say in the Canary Islands, where they stayed until he retired”.

When she talks about her father, the commentator and nurse in the Paediatric ICU, she refers to him as a “Santa Cruz character, always sitting on the Rambla chatting about his youth and experience as a migrant, a post-war time that was very hard”.”. In addition to being open and with an intense life story of constant self-improvement, built on hard work and effort, he got to know the other members of the group and created a bond with the group and with the project they were developing at the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria University Hospital in Tenerife. 

A key donation and a public tribute

In the 22 days he was in hospital before he died, his family had six hours a day of visitation: “In those talks we talked about everything, including Concomitentes,” explains Lili.. At that time, coinciding with his admission, it became known that funding was being sought for the printing of a first edition of the graphic history and, after checking the budget, Ángel told his daughter: “Take whatever you need”.

Thanks to your donation, the graphic story was able to see the light of day and have that initial distribution run coinciding with the closing event of the concomitance, which took place in Tenerife on 15 September. A space in which he was also honoured by presenting Lili with a bouquet of flowers as a token of gratitude and showing the caricature that the illustrator, Cynthia Hierro, made of him and which was inserted in the publication.

A gesture of enormous significance that we thank Angel for today!