The pediatrician Alexis de Jesús Moya Alcántara, 68 years old, died this Wednesday, July 29, after being treated as a patient with COVID-19 in the Simón Rodríguez municipality of the Anzoátegui state, in the east of the country.
Sources of the College of Physicians from the Southern Zone of Anzoátegui informed Cocuyo effect that Dr. Moya died at dawn in the Dr. Felipe Guevara Rojas Hospital, sentinel center for the attention of COVID-19 in El Tigre. He had pneumonia and respiratory distress; he was admitted to the coronavirus area of the hospital.
I was a pediatrician in Free exercise in this eastern entity. He remained active and carried out community work with different foundations of El Tigre, such as the Juan Pablo II Foundation. He Southern Medical Group He sent condolences and described him as a “noble and kind-hearted person, committed to his profession, who lost the battle against COVID-19 in El Tigre.”
He is the second doctor to die in the country in the last hours. The first was the doctor Edgar Manzanero, surgeon from Zulia state. With this death, at least 34 health workers died in Venezuela due to COVID-19, of which 25 are doctors.
Hospital without optimal conditions
Doctors from the El Tigre Hospital and the College of Physicians of the Southern Zone of Anzoátegui report that there are only three intensivist doctors and two mechanical fans in the COVID-19 area, whose intensive therapy is defined as “improvised” and lacking the necessary conditions for the care of people with critically ill severe respiratory failure.
They indicate that they manage as COVID-19 all patients who present the typical clinical picture of the disease. “In a pandemic, all patients with COVID-19 characteristics are COVID-19 until proven otherwise,” says a hospital specialist. However, he emphasizes that the hospital is not performing PCR tests on patients who die, so they do not receive confirmation of diagnosis if they did not previously take the sample.
They also claim to have deficiencies to perform X-rays and exams laboratory and they claim that the test results PCR are taking up 15 days to arrive.
They have few nursing staff and fear that their personal protective equipment they have left to cover care for the next two weeks. They also denounce that the population does not comply with quarantine and omits physical distancing and biosecurity measures.
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