The doctor Iván Santaella loses the battle against the coronavirus

The medical union of Cúcuta and Norte de Santander continues to have casualties in the war against the COVID-19 pandemic. This Sunday, Dr. Iván Santaella, who had been hospitalized for several days, died at the San José clinic.

At the end of November, a blood donation campaign was carried out for him, through social networks; even the San Vicente de Arauca Hospital, of which Santaella was manager, joined this initiative.

However, the doctor could not defeat the disease. Iván Darío Santaella Bedoya had been serving as director of the Suroccidental Regional Hospital.

Our condolences to the family of Iván Darío, who served as manager of the ESE Hospital Regional Occidente. We raise a prayer for your soul pic.twitter.com/qSgC6jT3dm

– Government of Norte de Santander (@GoberNorte) December 13, 2020

The death of the doctor occurs 10 days after the death of the urologist Luis Alberto Lobo, Also in the capital of Norte de Santander, due to the coronavirus.

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It is worth noting that in recent days the medical union has spoken through statements to public opinion, requesting Mayor Jairo Yáñez and Governor Silvano Serrano for a new quarantine in the city and classifying the measures adopted last Friday as insufficient.

In addition, these health professionals have alerted to “a tragedy of incalculable loss of human life” due to the lack of control of infections and that “the following days we will not have hospital supplies or necessary medicines to care for the sick.”

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The union has stressed that “there will be no one to attend to them either, because the growing condition of human resources in health is generating temporary and permanent disabilities, and every day it takes on very valuable and essential lives at this time.”

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“If a doctor, a nurse or a therapist is absent, it represents the suffering of many people who need them,” they say. For this reason, they call on President Iván Duque and the Minister of Health to convene a permanent evaluation committee of the measures implemented by the Unified Command Post (PMU) in Norte de Santander.