Neurosurgeon Rafael Ospino Núñez died of Covid – 19 – TODAY DIARIO DEL MAGDALENA



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The medical scientific community of the Department of Magdalena, especially that of the District of Santa Marta, once again dresses in mourning because of Covid – 19.

On this occasion, the deadly virus claimed the life of one of the great neurosurgeons at the Julio Méndez Barreneche University Hospital. The doctor Rafael Ospino Núñez passed away.

Samario, 65, married to Doña Magalis Casado Chinchilla, with whom he had two children, Andrea and Rafael, who were his adoration and who he said were his inspiration to work.

Together with Dr. Humberto Caiaffa, he formed an exemplary and outstanding team at the Julio Méndez Barreneche University Hospital, whose services were requested by the patients who came to that third-level Medical Unit in health care in Magdalena.

According to the known information, his death occurred this noon at the Avidanti Clinic, former headquarters of the Colombian Institute of Social Security, where he had been taken with symptoms of a heart attack.

The efforts made by his family to transfer him to a Barranquilla clinic were in vain, because death surprised him when the legal procedures for his transfer were carried out.

Everyone at the Julio Méndez Barraneche University Hospital laments the death of Dr. Ospino Núñez, whom they classify as a responsible, serious person, a friend of his friends, fulfilling his obligations.

In his professional life, he was president of the Magdalena Special Foundation for Neurological Diseases.

“The Julio Méndez Barreneche ESE University Hospital, expresses its most sincere condolences for the sensitive death of Mr. Rafael Ospino Núñez, who was our friend, colleague and member of the Family of our institution, we raise our prayers for his eternal rest and we present our feelings of consideration and appreciation to their children, relatives, friends and other acquaintances ”, says an obituary written by the University Hospital staff in expression of their notes of condolences with the family of the deceased.

DEAD IN HEALTH

With that of the doctor Rafael Ospino Núñez, the number of health professionals who have died in the District of Santa Marta and Magdalena rises to 10 as a result of Covid – 19.

First it was the nurse Alexis Panetta, then followed by the doctors Enrique Gamarra Acosta, Julio César Thomas Bornachera, Juan Andrés Díaz Granados Gámez, Héctor Núñez Ocaña, José Lucas Escobar, Jorge Torres Camargo, Víctor Emilio Durán Maestre and Elías José Hani Jimeno.



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