Álvaro Andrés Carranza, an urgent doctor at the Kennedy Hospital and the Police Hospital, died around midnight due to covid-19 at the age of 44, as confirmed by the district health authorities. (Read also: ‘Countries are not seeing the true magnitude of the pandemic’)
Dr. Carranza worked with the southern subnet of the District in the emergency service since 2017. His colleagues and friends remember him as an excellent professional, very dedicated to patients.
“The situation of Dr. Carranza means that it can give to anyone, that this has not happened, that when we talk about the heroism of health professionals we mean it”, the Secretary of Health of Bogotá, Alejandro Gómez, had said last night, when reporting its critical condition.
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In social networks, family and friends mourned his death. “She had no covid poster, no business, she never received a premium promised by the State. She worked with love in the midst of laughter and laughter even with the precariousness of a forgotten system. And today his life was turned off by a disease that today many dare to say does not exist. What is a business”Said a close health professional on Facebook.
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Until last Wednesday, official figures showed that 59 health professionals and workers had died in Colombia from covid-19. 31 of them infected in the middle of their service.
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