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There are two sounds that serve as a motor for the intensive care physician Juan Luis Echeverry: the intermittent noise of the vital signs monitor of his patients and the voice of his wife, with whom he has been married for 21 years and waits for him at home every day regardless the time you finish your work.
“My children and my wife always wait for me every day and when I have these difficult situations, I arrive, I share them with them, they listen to me and that helps me to move forward,” says Echeverry.
He fights death every day, he has had to face all kinds of situations. Remember that the hardest thing was having two sisters in ICUs and the day one overcame her critical condition, the other did not resist.
“That contrast of not having been able to move the two sisters forward affected us too much. That is perhaps the most difficult moment that we have lived with this, ”he recalled.
It overwhelms him that the system is collapsing, cases are increasing, and no bed is available. He says that in his 30 years as a doctor he never imagined facing this scenario.
“There were days when we felt that we weren’t going to be able to overcome the workload and the difficulties, so I’m telling you, this is an uncertainty, you don’t know which patients are going to leave and who are not, and when they start go wrong, everyone gets stressed, ”he added.
While the Medellín authorities are looking to find beds and locate patients, doctors work between 12 and 24 hours without stopping.
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