Fatal Guillain-Barr 51M Maracaibo Zulia Venezuela - Zika Link

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HUM worker dies from Guillain-Barre syndrome

Paulina Chirinos / Maracaibo / [email protected]

http://www.laverdad.com/zulia/90327-trabajador-del-hum-muere-por-guillain-barre.html

Family denounced the lack of input into the emergency HUM. Jorge La Cru, 51, was hospitalized with bodily pain, numbness in their limbs and coordination problems. He died of respiratory failure

Family demand answers to the health authorities. (Photo: Gabriela Sanz)

"His picture was complicated and died," were the words of the doctor. Jorge La Cruz, worker at University Hospital in Maracaibo (HUM), lying in the emergency medical center after six days of fighting Guillain-Barre syndrome, allegedly associated with the zika and identified by health authorities as "neurological complication" . 

For five years he was a worker of HUM. He was in charge of cleaning from emergence to the morgue. Berceles Pelufo wife reported that her late husband from his youth was "like an oak", being more agile and faster than his crew.  

December 26 La Cruz had to leave the task of stretchers quarter morgue, to his surprise a tide of mosquito flew to meet him. When he got home his family saw red marks on your skin. Two days later, bone pain and fear arose appeared "to be zika". 

Two days of rest and pain medication, they returned to normal worker. Berceles remember doctors CDI Santa Rosa had advised him to rest, eat soup and coconut water. New Year their woes were forgotten.

2016 came and discomfort of Jorge reappeared. January 2 muscle pain came on the scene along with numbness in the soles of the feet, hands and face. For the January 9 La Cruz complained of pain in the back that was becoming more "unbearable" that day entered the HUM of sound mind and the ability to walk.

Guillain-Barre syndrome

Maria Hernandez, daughter of affected, explained that after physical examinations were the doctor's diagnosis, "Mr. has Guillain-Barré but it is an expensive treatment.You can only deal with immunoglobulin and we do not have here in the hospital. They have to find a way to get it. "

His wife in the midst of despair listened as the doctor requested solutions and medicines, "each solution cost thousand Bolivars and my husband needed eight daily". 

He told how his father worsened by the lack of immunoglobulin, "doctors told us that soon would arrive medicine but never". Les was given a certificate signed and stamped on recyclable paper with the diagnosis of GBS to request to transfer medicine from the border "for" to be able to afford it. 

The only option left was plasmapheresis, but could not be implemented because La Cruz had high blood pressure, "does not tell us anything, and took too long to tell us we should give plasmapheresis". 

On the morning of January 11 doctors announced that La Cruz had to be intubated. Anger, fear and bewilderment accompanied their relatives to the hospital management to claim medications and appropriate care. The principal's secretary gave them an answer to their cries: "no guarantee you worry us all." 

grief 

Jorge La Cruz breathed his last at age 51 on Thursday, January 14th at 3:00 am in the emergence of HUM no family around. She had a respiratory arrest. Teary-eyed Mrs. Berceles mourns the death of her husband. 

"He was not so bad when he arrived. Had we explained early on what our options were. And today happened to my husband, it can happen to anyone. We do not want to continue going health authorities have to take action. "

The death certificate was issued on January 14 and says the cause of death "febrile illness" when in previous reports had been diagnosed as Guillain-Barre syndrome. Family members are a grief and a question: "How many people must die before action is taken?"

Maria Hernandez, daughter of Jorge, "They're letting people die. On the seventh floor emergency and even we saw four patients die daily. They can not afford to care for them. "