Dr. Alejandro Emilio Báez Van-Epps, father of the former health adviser, Dear Alejandro Báez, died after being hospitalized with Covid-19 for several days.
The information was released by Alejandro Báez, who was also a former director of the COVID-19 Health Emergency Management Committee in the last Government.
Writing an account of what happened to the family after their parents were infected with the virus, the prominent specialist narrated that they had four weeks struggling with Covid complications in their parents. Her mother Victoria is still hospitalized with the disease.
“On December 24, Dad had a cardiac arrest, resuscitated him and took him to the same ICU, (just a few feet away) from Mommy. Some days better than others, the day before his death he caught me I shook his hand and I said to him repeatedly, “Everything will be fine, everything will be fine.”
“On the 31st at home there was no desire to celebrate. The first, to celebrate the year was brought to Daddy by a player with a super Spotify list, of his favorite classical music, it gave me satisfaction to know that he would like this gift. the ICU let me in and they tell me, Doctor Báez, stay here. I shouldn’t have said more “, was part of the message published by the son that whoever dedicated 70 years of his life to medicine and 30 to teaching .
He argued that the team tried to revive him professionally, which is why he appreciated his compassion at such a difficult time.
Dr. Báez Van-Epps was buried yesterday. “A sad and empty ceremony, unrepresentative of the life of a man who from the age of 16 spent 70 consecutive years in medicine,” his son said.
He graduated from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) in 1958, and taught at the UNPHU for 30 years. Besides Alexander, with his wife Victoria he procreated to Alexandra.
“Rest in peace Daddy, thank you for all that you were and all that you gave us,” Báez concludes his writing dedicated to his father.
In an interview offered by the specialist to Listín Diari on June 16, when he served as director of the Health Emergency Management Committee COVID-19, Alejandro Báez stressed the need for citizens to be cared for, so that “the virus kills.”
The virus must be afraid
He was convinced that the COVID-19 must be afraid. “The virus is sick, the virus kills, there are hundreds of Dominicans who have lost their lives to this virus and we must understand that there are millions of Dominicans who have made sacrifices so that we are at a better point and the worst that can to pass is to relax the measures on a personal level, because I’m fed up, ”he said at the time.
In the interview, published on June 16 in the section “An Appointment with Covid”, the doctor recalled the sacrifices he made to care for his parents, due to his advanced age, so it is they were within the group of vulnerable people. He said he had to greet from afar.
“It’s very difficult for me to be in the country and not be able to live with my parents. I visit them sporadically but I don’t give them hugs, I keep my distance, I use masks, clean handles, it’s a matter of understanding that you have to invest in the biggest , do not lose the much for the little “.
We can express affections and socialize in another way, it is to change the way we see things, and move “from mine to the common”, and we need to take much more care of those over 60 with comorbidities.