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Carlos Hinzpeter, one of the most important pediatric doctors in the country and father of the former interior minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, died Tuesday of coronavirus in his room at the Senior Suites residence, located in the Providencia district.
“He was a great doctor, a great man and a great father, we will always remember him“Daniel Hinzpeter, one of his sons, said to The second. “He was a very restless man of outstanding intellectual acuity. Very close to his patients, he always maintained direct and friendly communication, “he added.
Carlos graduated in Medicine from the University of Chile, after which he began working at the Dr. Exequiel González Cortés Children’s Hospital. He then traveled to the United States to specialize in intensive care at California Lutheran Hospital.
When he returned to Chile, Carlos Hinzpeter went to work in the country’s only ICU pediatric unit, Calvo Mackenna. It was after this that he became one of the founders of the Las Condes Clinic, where he practiced for 35 years.
“As an organization we highlight its great contribution to the development of Clínica Las Condes and its important work in the advances reflected in the specialty of pediatrics and intensive medicine in our country ”, they wrote from the clinic.
In 1996 he attended what would be his most media case when receiving Tamara Schayman, a four-month-old girl who fell into a coma as a result of mistreatment by his father Alejandro Schayman, dying six years later.
This and other cases motivated him to promote the safety and care of boys and girls, thus developing the now defunct website www.noaccidente.cl, where provided recommendations and advice.
He continued doing something similar for news and television shows, As in 2014, it did so by providing recommendations to prevent the spread of the syncytial virus in CNN Chile.
In 2016 he was one of the signatories of a letter addressed to former President Michelle Bachelet with the aim that withdraw the bill that decriminalized abortion.
“I have not abandoned you, dad”
Ximena Hinzpeter, daughter of Carlos, wrote an open letter in late April The Clinic, in which he addressed the days before he was diagnosed with COVID-19.
“This morning they called me from the flat; you have a fever, thirty seven and a half, dry cough and obstruction. They are going to do the test“It was part of what Ximena wrote.
In addition, he recalled the last time he saw it, before Senior Suites closed its doors to visitors on March 14: “I found you sleeping in front of a turned on television, next to the woman who eats her hands. I sat next to you, greeted you and asked me what he had done to me. And as always when you appear for your body, I celebrated you with hubbub, kisses and hugs“
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