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May 10, 2020
The mystery of sudden deaths on the streets of Nicaragua
The alarm started on April 7, when a 55-year-old lender died of a heart attack while sleeping in a section of the Roberto Huembes market. That afternoon, Legal Medicine workers arrived by Don Pepe’s body wearing white protective suits that covered them from head to toe, a precaution that seemed suspicious to many, considering that the world is experiencing a Covid-19 pandemic.
Others, on the other hand, called for calm and asked not to jump to conclusions. But just a day later, security guard Benito Uriarte, 54, died of a heart attack while caring for a gas station in the city of Le?n. A man who happened to be passing by saw him put a hand to his chest before falling struck down on the floor of the premises.
After that, four days passed without incident until, on April 13, three people joined the list of deaths from heart attack. The university student Elton V?lchez, 21, died in a Matagalpa hospital to which he had been transferred the previous day after suffering a drop in pressure. The other two victims were Mercedes Ramos, 73, and Margarita Reyes, 98. Both inhabitants of Le?n.
Ramos died in the morning and a few hours later, in the late afternoon, Reyes began to feel bad. The old woman was reportedly on her way to the laundry room when she first fainted. Then she put her hands to her chest, said she felt pain in her heart, and passed out again.
In the following 23 days, the media reported at least 14 other similar cases: sudden deaths from heart attack or stroke.
Under normal circumstances, the explanation that high temperatures are responsible for this wave of deaths could suffice. After all, if the statistics of the Ministry of Health (Minsa) are taken as a reference, during 2019 in Nicaragua 3,097 people died from acute myocardial infarction: an average of 8 people per day. But that explanation does not seem to suffice in the current circumstances.
Expert opinion is divided. All affirm that definitely the heats of the season have something to do; But some argue that a possible link to Covid-19 should not be ruled out, an infection from which something new is discovered every day. These are the explanations behind the mystery of the sudden deaths on the streets of Nicaragua.
This is how Legal Medicine workers came to lift the body of the lender who on April 7 died of a heart attack in the Roberto Huembes market...
May 10, 2020
The mystery of sudden deaths on the streets of Nicaragua
The alarm started on April 7, when a 55-year-old lender died of a heart attack while sleeping in a section of the Roberto Huembes market. That afternoon, Legal Medicine workers arrived by Don Pepe’s body wearing white protective suits that covered them from head to toe, a precaution that seemed suspicious to many, considering that the world is experiencing a Covid-19 pandemic.
Others, on the other hand, called for calm and asked not to jump to conclusions. But just a day later, security guard Benito Uriarte, 54, died of a heart attack while caring for a gas station in the city of Le?n. A man who happened to be passing by saw him put a hand to his chest before falling struck down on the floor of the premises.
After that, four days passed without incident until, on April 13, three people joined the list of deaths from heart attack. The university student Elton V?lchez, 21, died in a Matagalpa hospital to which he had been transferred the previous day after suffering a drop in pressure. The other two victims were Mercedes Ramos, 73, and Margarita Reyes, 98. Both inhabitants of Le?n.
Ramos died in the morning and a few hours later, in the late afternoon, Reyes began to feel bad. The old woman was reportedly on her way to the laundry room when she first fainted. Then she put her hands to her chest, said she felt pain in her heart, and passed out again.
In the following 23 days, the media reported at least 14 other similar cases: sudden deaths from heart attack or stroke.
Under normal circumstances, the explanation that high temperatures are responsible for this wave of deaths could suffice. After all, if the statistics of the Ministry of Health (Minsa) are taken as a reference, during 2019 in Nicaragua 3,097 people died from acute myocardial infarction: an average of 8 people per day. But that explanation does not seem to suffice in the current circumstances.
Expert opinion is divided. All affirm that definitely the heats of the season have something to do; But some argue that a possible link to Covid-19 should not be ruled out, an infection from which something new is discovered every day. These are the explanations behind the mystery of the sudden deaths on the streets of Nicaragua.
This is how Legal Medicine workers came to lift the body of the lender who on April 7 died of a heart attack in the Roberto Huembes market...