Cabimas.- Yexon Huerta Reyes, 24, a medical student at the University of Zulia (LUZ), died on Tuesday afternoon, June 30, at a clinic in Cabimas, in the state of Zulia, after he was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia and sepsis with a gastrointestinal starting point.
Huerta’s family and friends had started a campaign called #UnidosPorYexon through social networks and the Gofundme platform with which they were seeking to raise funds to pay for his treatment and medical studies that he required in the Intensive Care Unit in which he was confined from the June 26th.
Student leaders, teachers, classmates from the University of Zulia and representatives of political parties mourned the death of the young man, who in addition to being a volunteer in foundations, also held the position of youth secretary of Primero Justicia, in Cabimas.
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Freddy Pachado, postgraduate chief of Medicine at LUZ, described the young man as a human being with a vocation for service. “It helped us in activities to rescue spaces from the university,” he said in a Twitter post.
“Thank you Yexon for teaching us so much, thank you for giving so much of yourself, thank you for your fight. From wherever you are, rest assured that your legacy will always live on in our hearts ”, published the LUZ Surgeon Medical Committee.
Huerta was a university counselor at the University of Zulia, deputy president of the Student Center of the Faculty of Medicine and a founding member of LUZ First Aid, a program that was started by a group of students to care for the wounded during acts of repression by security forces in Maracaibo protests in 2017.
He was also the coordinator of the Merienda Escolar program, which operated at the Víctor Lino Gómez school, in the 26 de Julio neighborhood of Cabimas. With the support of various foundations that sent donations, they feed 420 primary school children with lunches and maintain nutritional monitoring of weight and height.
