Britain: 47-year-old dies of ‘Long Covid’ two months after leaving intensive care unit



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Sick of coronavirus in the first wave of the pandemic. He managed to get out of intensive, with the nursing staff proceeding to applause. And 60 days later, he didn’t make it and ended.

The reason for Roehl Ribaya, τον 47-year-old aeronautical engineer, believed to have suffered from “Long Covid” – as reported in the British media – plunging his family into mourning.

The patient was admitted to Blackpool Victoria Hospital on May 29 and spent two months in the intensive care unit. the He was intubated for 48 days..

Doctors and nurses erupted in celebration when he was released from the hospital in July. He was her last patient of the first wave of the coronavirus that there was.

«He was sure that he would die. How can you thank the people who saved your life? the father of a 47-year-old boy had said then.

Never managed to recover

After his death last Thursday, his wife, a nurse by profession, revealed that “never recovered “ its medium-term effects coronavirus. She even expressed fears that her husband is one of the many “long Covid” tragedies.

His wife examined the 47-year-old after suffering a heart attack. Shortly after, he went into a coma and two days later it was over. “It just came to our attention then. He had trouble breathing all the time.” he said, urging people to follow the coronavirus measures, so that others do not lose their lives.

Officially, Ribaya died of cardiac arrest, secondary to pulmonary fibrosis caused by coronavirus. His breathing, family friends testify, was difficult and he was unable to climb the stairs. In the past he had to be taken to the hospital several times.

The death of the 47-year-old man at the hospital where he was admitted caused pain and disappointment. The staff declares that they are devastated, not forgetting the special symbolism of their discharge, as the latest victim of the first wave.

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