A 108-year-old Peruvian woman surpasses COVID-19

Lima – A 108-year-old Peruvian woman was discharged on Wednesday after passing COVID-19, which forced her to remain hospitalized in one of the field hospitals installed in Lima to treat sensitive cases of coronavirus infections.

Petronila Cárdenas was dismissed to the applause of the medical staff of the Center for Temporary Care and Isolation (CAAT) of the Hipólito Unanue Hospital who treated her and kept her under observation until she made sure she was free of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The woman, a Quechua-speaker born in the Andean region of Huancavelica, will be able to reunite at the Christmas holidays with her family, consisting of 5 children, 15 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.

The last of her daughters, Melissa Condori, confessed that she would not know if she would see her mother again with once she was supposed to be hospitalized.

Swollen and out of breath

“My mother got sick, was swollen and couldn’t breathe. We take her urgently to two other hospitals and no one wants to receive her because there was no leg. Someone told us that we took them to the CAAT of Hipólito Unanue and there we received them quickly “, said Condori.

“They tested him on covid-19 and he tested positive, they took lung plates and blood samples, then they told me he had to stay. I started to cry, I was afraid of not seeing my mommy again “, added the youngest daughter, 45 years old.

The daughter expressed her gratitude for the treatment provided to her mother by the staff of this field hospital, one of the six centers of care and isolation of cases of covid-19 installed in Lima for the legacy management project of the Lima Pan American Games 2019.

Served between cottons

“The doctors called me to inform me about the evolution of his health and just yesterday I was told that I was discharged. I couldn’t believe it, until I went to pick her up and cried again, but this time with emotion “, Condori explained before returning home with her mother.

The elderly woman is the 442nd patient discharged from the CAAT of the Hipólito Unanue Hospital, which will begin operations on June 22, just at the peak of the pandemic in Peru.

Peru is expecting before the start of a possible second wave of contagion after being one of the epicenters of the pandemic during the first phase to the accumulation so far 36,817 deaths and approaching one million contagions.