Tijuana.- For nine months, the nurse of the General Hospital of Tijuana, José Luis García, and the private doctor Martín Roberto Landeros were treating positive coronavirus patients, and after falling ill with the virus, they asked for help to buy medicines and face the high costs of the disease.
Martín Roberto Landeros is a doctor who treated dozens of patients for complications of Sars-Cov-2 in his private office in Tijuana. His daughter Ilse Karina Landeros Cázares claims that she had all the preventive measures, but last December 16 they received the studies that she contracted the virus.
Ilse Karina Landeros Czáares says her health became complicated because the doctor acquired a bacterium, added to Covid-19. “He had complications, nothing else is Covid, he had an infection in his lungs and pneumonia and all this caused a bacterium to fall on him which brought him more complications and that’s why we had to hospitalize him … my father he has no social insurance, nothing (where to take care of his illness) “.
Relatives of the doctor receive donations to the Banamex bank account number 5206949633890792, with interbank key 002028701418044704 in the name of his wife Maria Josefina Cázares Armenta.
On the other hand, the nurse of the General Hospital of Tijuana, Jose Luis Garci’a, who was in the area of emergencies with positive patients to the coronavirus, is hospitalized in the same hospital; for nine months he fought on the front line of action against Sars-Cov-2.
When questioned by the Secretary of Health, Alonso Pérez Rico, about the lack of medicines for the worker, he said that he will review the case and mentioned that the shortage of medicines for muscle relaxants continues at a national level.
Pérez has indicated that medical staff in the health sector who are cared for in public hospitals do not experience drug shortages and will review the case.
“I see this issue of the nurse Luis García, I corroborate that the partner is here, usually the sector does not go through this, but I see that it is happening to him,” said Pérez Rico.
José Luis García’s co-workers describe him as a hardworking man and the best head of medical emergencies at the General Hospital of Tijuana, despite having been fighting the pandemic for nine months, today he does not have the resources to buy medicine.
Donations are received to Oxxo’s account number 4766841726582896, in the name of Fabiola Guadalupe Zavala Bojórquez who is the supervisor of the area where José Luis García works.