Sandra Guadalupe Barrientos suffered a brain death while in the US. UU. to spend the holiday season at his mother-in-law’s house. There she was also fired with honors at the hospital where she died.
At twelve noon at the International Airport, in Comalapa, about 40 nurses and administrative employees of the San Rafael de Santa Tecla Hospital waited on Wednesday in the cargo area.
Most of those present kept and exchanged photographs of Sandra Guadalupe Barrientos, of the last moments he shared with them. She was described as an outgoing woman, with a positive attitude and a lot of human quality, both with them and with patients in the outpatient area, where she had stood out for the past three years.
A patient from San Rafael Hospital will receive the organs donated by the nurse who died in the United States. VIDEO COURTESY: Nurse Patient
Of his companions, there is no one who has not heard the phrase “top it my end”, his battle cry in the assistance center in the face of adversities or early days. Sandra was characterized To cheer up your classmates and patients, those who were not strange will help you solve problems with consultations and even give them words of encouragement.
“She was a woman with a lot of empathy, if the patient was late trying to find a place,” says the director of the San Rafael Hospital, Yeerles Ramírez.
Her fellow nurses also remember her cheerful attitude. “Even if she was tired, she always wanted to work, no matter how she felt,” recalls Mélida Yanira Acevedo.
“She was smiling friendly, always liked to help all classmates and patients.” Nimsi Martinez, nurse’s partner. EDH photo / Jessica Orellana
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Sandra’s last years were not easy, according to her own colleagues. She had a lot of constant headaches, which even caused her to become incapacitated for more than once. Due to this condition, different tests had already been performed, but until last December none of them had made a diagnosis possible.
“A week before his departure, I told him to take a CT scan for the amount of headaches he had and he did so,” says Dr. Yeerles, director of the hospital.
In El Salvador Guadalupe Barrientos (left) could not have been a donor because there is still no Law on Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Human Cells. Photo / Courtesy
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The nurse lived in Santa Ana and traveled to Santa Tecla to do her job at San Rafael. I had previously worked at the Benjamin Bloom National Children’s Hospital.
On December 21, Felipa Guillén de Barrientos, Sandra’s mother-in-law received them in New Jersey. She was traveling with her thick son and son, who celebrated her birthday in that last week of life.
On December 30, Sandra couldn’t stand the pain anymore. He had made an effort resting to be ready for the end of the year celebrations, but he couldn’t stand it. He asked her relatives to take her to the hospital. On January 3 he died at the Overlook Medical Center.
The Salvadoran nurse had expressed that she wanted to donate her organs, something that was only possible because she was in other lands, because in El Salvador there are no legal conditions to do so.
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