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  • Two other doctors and a nurse die in Zulia by COVID-19, says M?dicos Unidos

    Source: https://efectococuyo.com/coronavirus...edicos-unidos/

    Two other doctors and a nurse die in Zulia by COVID-19, says M?dicos Unidos
    Text by Ronny Rodr?guez Rosas

    Two doctors and a nurse died in the Zulia state victims of COVID-19. This was stated by the NGO M?dicos Unidos de Venezuela Zulia chapter this Wednesday June 24.

    The first death they reported was that of Dr. Marisela Ram?rez, who works in the Senior Adult program in the western entity.

    According to the regional newspaper La Verdad, Ram?rez was being held in the intensive care unit of a Maracaibo clinic. When her health condition became complicated, she was transferred to the university hospital in the Zulia capital. There she died this Tuesday, June 23 in the afternoon. The local newspaper adds that Ram?rez's husband is also in intensive care.

    The other deceased doctor is gynecologist Manuel Romero, who worked for 30 years in a private Marabino medical center.

    His death was reported by gastroenterologist Edgar Parra, who is a member of the Venezuelan Society of Gastroenterology.

    "God be with you always, professor. We mourn him and we will miss him in the corridors of the clinic, ”Parra wrote.

    He also **** an obituary from the medical center where Romero worked for three decades.

    Medicos Unidos said that nurse Keyla Moya, who worked at the military hospital in Maracaibo, also died.

    “With this death we have four deceased colleagues and a nurse, in addition to 3 in ICU in critical condition. Strength and faith at this time, let's pray a lot, "said the NGO.
    An epidemiologist and a pediatrician

    In Zulia, the first doctor to die from a coronavirus was Samuel Viloria, an epidemiologist and former director of the Maracaibo University Hospital. His death occurred on June 16, but he is not on the official list of victims of COVID-19 offered daily by the Nicol?s Maduro administration.

    The second was the pediatrician Solangel Scandela, who worked in the military hospital. The death occurred on Saturday, June 20.

    This Monday, June 22, the Zulia College of Doctors asked to declare the red alert in the entity for cases of the coronavirus. According to an unofficial list that they handle, in the western state there would be 44 doctors with COVID-19.

    In Zulia there is the largest focus of contagion of the pandemic, in the Las Pulgas market in Maracaibo.

    Maduro's Health Minister, Carlos Alvarado, reported this Tuesday, June 23, that this outbreak has 403 infected and 13 deceased.

  • #2
    Source: https://elpitazo.net/salud/16-de-los...icos-zulianos/

    16% of those killed by COVID-19 in Venezuela were Zulu doctors
    Since June 15, seven deaths of health professionals have been reported, according to the registry of guilds and civil associations that group doctors from all over the country
    By Jes?s Barreto A. -
    June 25, 2020 4:30 pm

    Caracas.- The boom in the spread of the new coronavirus in the Zulia state has been lethal for health personnel. In the last five weeks, the sharpening of the contagion focus in the western region has been related to the death of seven members of the health personnel. That is, of the 38 deaths that were officially registered in the country, as of this Wednesday, June 24, 16% were doctors or nurses.

    This figure corresponds to an independent calculation of El Pitazo. The statistics are based on complaints from professional associations and groups of unions in the health sector. According to the civil association M?dicos Unidos de Venezuela, the most recent victims were the Zulia gynecologist-obstetrician Manuel Romero and the nursing graduate Keila Molaya, who belonged to the payroll of the Military Hospital of Maracaibo.

    These deaths were added to three others confirmed by the entity's College of Physicians and the College of Nursing. Solanger Scandela, resident of the Pediatrics area of ​​the Military Hospital of Maracaibo; Marisela Ram?rez, member of a care program for the Elderly in the region and Samuel Viloria, epidemiologist and former director of the University Hospital of Maracaibo.

    Viloria was the first reported deceased in the first two weeks of June. Molaya's death was admitted by the Zulia College of Doctors. Meanwhile, Romero's death was confirmed by colleagues and the private clinic worked for 30 years. The confirmation was spread on the Twitter social network by coworkers.


    Reserved forecast

    Later it was known of the deaths of Henry Fuenamayor and Zaida Plumache. Both doctors and teachers at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zulia. These last two were corroborated in a statement issued by the Colegio de M?dicos del Estado Miranda in which they expressed their condolences. Due to the increase in lethality and contagion, the entity remains under strict measures to contain the spread of the virus. Since the acceleration of transmission, the contagion epicenter is attributed to the Flea Market.

    The specific cause is unknown for any of these deaths. There are also no known aspects that affected the worsening of coronavirus symptoms, which kept them on Intensive Care in the hospitals where they provided services. The probability that the case fatality rate related to COVID-19 in health professionals is increasing. According to the registry of M?dicos Unidos de Venezuela, three other Zulian doctors are hospitalized in critical condition in the Intensive Care Units.

    Jaime Lorenzo, director of the NGO, insists that none of these deaths has been included, until this publication, in the official part. So in addition to being unprotected, the guild feels invisible. Since before the first cases of the SARS-VOC-2 disease were reported in the country, unions and unions of workers in the ambulatory and hospital network warned about deficiencies in biosafety equipment for staff.
    jorge rodriguez coronavirus

    World concern

    The shortage of personal protective equipment (EPP) for workers in permanent contact with those infected and suspected of COVID-19 is a global concern. Since the beginning of March, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned about "the serious and growing interruption in the world supply" of these supplies. In addressing the crisis in Venezuela, the WHO added the prioritized delivery of PPE. But it has not been specified if the delivery has been effective.


    The WHO recommendations on the use of protective barriers in personnel handling COVID-19 cases were updated in April. The guidelines dictate that each member treating suspected patients must wear one glove per case. In addition, they must have disposable gowns and masks with a maximum use limit of 24 hours.

    With the increase of cases in the sanitary personnel spokesmen of the governor Nicol?s Maduro, they have made the workers themselves responsible. The infections include even employees of the administrative headquarters of the Ministry of Health. On May 23, when the pandemic was more than 70 days active, the Minister of Communication and Information, Jorge Rodr?guez, summoned doctors and nurses to make appropriate use of the protective equipment.

    Assume you are in front of a patient with COVID-19. Heed the protocol, wear the mask. We have seen videos, that we are registering in sanitary cords, of health workers who are not using it. That they do not use the regulatory gloves, that they do not use the suits arranged and distributed for the care of these patients, ”said the official.
    Ignored

    Specifically, Rodr?guez mentioned gloves and masks. However, these implements are the most scarce in hospitals in the country. On June 11 in a letter addressed to the Governor of Zulia, Omar Prieto, the entity's College of Doctors denounced the constant failures in the delivery of EPP. The biosecurity barriers do not arrive in the quantity and fluidity required, they highlighted in the document signed by Dianela Parra, president of the union.

    "On repeated occasions and through communications including the Office of the Ombudsman, we have been insisting on the obligation of employers to provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to all Health Personnel and especially doctors, in order to be able to attend to the patients, as well as the conditions for sanitation, personal hygiene and rest, without receiving any kind of response ”, was the main exhortation of the members.

    This letter, which has not yet been answered, was sent four days before the first death due to COVID-19 aggravation was confirmed. Samuel Viloria, former director of the University hospital, who died on June 15. The prominent professional started a list that is cause for concern and threats of resignation of a staff who gives his life every day to care for a population, without guarantees of returning home.

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