The ICU of the University Hospital of A Coruña remains free of coronavirus patients since the outbreak of the pandemic. The number of those admitted to the area is 11. No one is in the ICU and there are 7 on the ward at Hospital A Coruña. There are three entered in the Model. In the last hours, the health area reports 6 discharges, among those who have left the hospital, those who continue in it for other pathologies but have already overcome the coronavirus and those who have been cured at home.
So far there are 128 deaths with coronavirus in the hospitals in the health area of A Coruña and Cee since the start of the pandemic. To these cases we must add the deceased in the nursing homes.
The peak of those admitted to the health area was recorded on April 3 and 4, with 266 patients admitted, 53 of them in the Intensive Care Unit.
The A Coruña and Cee area has 162 active cases. The number of cured amounts to 2,422.
A businessman linked to the car
An 82-year-old man admitted to the Hospital A Coruña with a coronavirus died on April 15. He was the businessman of Carballo Felipe Cotelo Gerpe. Head of Talleres Felipe e Hijos, was for years the visible face of Mercedes Benz in Carballo. At the end of the 70s, in the company of other promoters, he promoted the creation of the Bértoa industrial estate. Precisely, the community of owners of the business park has expressed its condolences in a statement.
The worst days
Six people who remained hospitalized in A Coruña Hospital died on April 10 with Covid-19 coronavirus. They were two women, 71 and 87 years old, and four men, 77, 86 and 88.
Six other people admitted to the A Coruña University Hospital with coronavirus died on April 4. They were two men, 69 and 90 years old, and four women between 78 and 96 years old.
A pregnant woman and her baby
A 37-year-old woman with Covid-19 coronavirus, died on March 29 in the Maternal and Child Hospital of A Coruña after failing a cesarean section. “He had previous chronic pathology,” according to the health center. It was a woman from Carballo who was pregnant and who went to the Maternal and Child Hospital with contractions this Sunday. After presenting other types of discomfort, the coronavirus test was positive. When their worsening was verified, the doctors decided to schedule an emergency caesarean section. After the intervention, he died. It was the third trimester of gestation. The baby also passed away.
The first deceased in the Virxe da Xunqueira
The Virxe da Xunqueira de Cee Hospital On March 25, he registered his first death from coronavirus since the epidemic broke out. This is an 84-year-old man, as confirmed by management sources.
Patient 0, discharged
The first patient diagnosed with coronavirus in Galicia On March 4, a 49-year-old man from Madrid was discharged on March 22 at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the University Hospital Complex of A Coruña (CHUAC), according to the head of the ICU of the hospital, David Freire.
The man, who had traveled from the capital of Spain to the male city by car, had come to the hospital two days before his admission with a respiratory condition and, after undergoing imaging and microbiological tests, it was confirmed that he had pneumonia of viral origin, from which point the protocol for managing cases susceptible to being infected by coronavirus was activated.
This is the first patient discharged from the ICU in Galicia, stressed Freire. All CHUAC professionals celebrated this discharge because it represents “progress and a glimpse of hope” in the fight against this pandemic, emphasized the head of the UCI.
The first president of the San Agustín market
The fourth deceased at Hospital A Coruña, a 70-year-old man, was a extra-worker from the San Agustín market, whose association was its first president.
This was reported by sources consulted by Europa Press and from the entity’s social networks, where samples of condolences were transferred for the death of Carlos Diaz.
The retired former worker from the San Agustín market, other sources consulted confirmed that he was a relative of one of the users of the Aspronaga center in Lamastelle, in Oleiros (A Coruña), where several positives for coronavirus were detected and of which another deceased was a user. .
A historic trade unionist
The third deceased from coronavirus He is a 75-year-old man who was admitted to the Hospital A Coruña and who had previous chronic pathologies.
Its about historic trade unionist of the Workers’ Commissions José Luís Paz Pena. The union is mourning today. He was present until the last minute in the labor dispute of the old Alcoa, where he was chairman of the works council. Weeks before his death, he could be seen in the last demonstration demanding the statute of the electro-intensive.
CC.OO. He described him in a statement as “an essential two, a home and a syndicalist bo e xeneroso”, an “indefatigable companion who did not miss a mobilization agora xa as retired” after a long career in Alcoa and as xeral secretary of the Federation of Industry of the union. Paz Pena began his workers struggle already in hiding against Francoism and building what is now the national union of Workers’ Commissions.
A retiree from the banking sector
The second deceased of the area was a 72-year-old man who was admitted to the ICU of CHUAC and who had previous pathologies.
It was natural to Cedeira, retired from the banking sector and had a family user from the Lamestelle center in Aspronaga, where the first deceased also went to in A Coruña.
A user of the Lamastelle center
The first died of coronavirus in A Coruña was a 45-year-old man admitted to the University Hospital Complex of A Coruña that he had “many previous pathologies”, according to the medical report. This is a user of the Lamastelle Occupational Center, as confirmed in a statement Aspronaga (Association for People with Intellectual Disabilities of Galicia).
“There are no words to express the pain of the entire Aspronaga family, very shocked by the situation they are experiencing,” says the statement from the association that conveys all its “love and support to the family of the deceased and, also, to all the Aspronaga families who are going through this hard time. “
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