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At the age of 69, Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo lost his life this Tuesday due to the coronavirus, after fighting for 16 days against that invisible enemy.
According to the official report of the Central Military Hospital, released in a statement by the Presidency, at 01:53 am on January 26, 2021, Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo García died, who was hospitalized in the intensive care unit, for his pathology of severe viral pneumonia caused by sars-cov2.
During the night of Monday, the head of the Defense portfolio presented a “progressive deterioration of his clinical condition, aggravated by complications related to his basic comorbidities, without an adequate response to the established therapy,” as reported by the Presidency.
Progressive deterioration of their clinical condition, aggravated by complications related to their underlying comorbidities, without an adequate response to the established therapy
Even, President Iván Duque assured that Carlos Holmes Trujillo had an arrhythmia on Monday afternoon and it was controlled. But this Tuesday at 2:30 am the Head of State received the call in which he was informed of the death. He spoke with his wife, Alba Lucía Anaya, and their children.
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Weeks earlier, when the Minister of Defense learned that he had been infected with covid-19, he told the President Iván Duque, with whom he spoke up to four times a day. Even the president revealed in interviews that the first call he made that day was to Holmes Trujillo, as well as the last every night. More than colleagues they were friends.
On January 11, the lawyer was hospitalized at the Iberoamérica Clinic in the city of Barranquilla, at that time he was monitored and stable.
On January 13, he was transferred to the Central Military Hospital, in the town of Chapinero, in Bogotá. Presidency assured at that time that he remained “in good health.”
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Two days later, on January 15, he was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) due to acute deterioration in his lung function. For three days he was receiving “permanent medical attention from the corresponding multidisciplinary group, due to the current acute respiratory infection, secondary to viral pneumonia due to SARS COV-2,” as reported by the Casa de Nariño.
In addition, he was under “strict monitoring of his clinical condition and medical care.” His comorbidity of hypertension and his age made him part of the population at greatest risk.
As of January 18, the Presidency reported almost daily on the state of health of who was also a former presidential candidate. A day later, Trujillo was known to be “under the effects of sedation and relaxation, under invasive mechanical ventilation and support and monitoring measures indicated for his clinical condition, “as the Executive announced.
However, the statement noted that “his medical condition is stable, with an adequate response to the established therapies.” The following day, the Casa de Nariño reported that it was “tolerating the established ventilatory support measures favorably and with adequate hemodynamic stability.”
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On January 22, four days before his death, it was known that Trujillo had no commitment to other organs and that he continued with the “therapies established in a dynamic way.”
His health seemed to be improving. The last communication on his state of health before his death was on January 23, and this was reported by the Presidency: “His clinical condition is stable, receiving ventilatory support in the intensive care unit, hemodynamically stable, with improvement in oxygenation since yesterday and antibiotic coverage due to the risk of an infectious process “.
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