Leonardo Sánchez Martínez’s fear of seeing seven relatives die in a unit of intensive surveillance (UCI) for covid-19 it made him resist to the last of reaching one clinic in search of medical care.
When he fell ill, also by virus, He decided to stay at his home in Santa Marta, although the symptoms were getting worse every day.
Leonardo was sure with his own strength and one natural treatment who recommended him to the neighborhood would manage to withstand the havoc from’ coronavirus in his body.
However, nothing came of it and although he struggled and endured two weeks, the virus ended up leading to his death, at just 43 years old.
the deaths was registered last Monday, April 12, at 6 p.m., and his cos he was lying in bed in his room, from where he was removed only two days later by the health authority.
A death that could have been avoided
His brother Jaime Alberto Sánchez Martínez, in the midst of pain that seized him to lose eight of his already parents most beloved, he thinks Leonardo perhaps should survived receiving timely medical care at a center welfare.
“He was a young, healthy, and healthy person who had the will and strength to live many more years,” he recalls.
He regrets that nothing and no one could make Leonardo change his mind. opinion, Not even in his most critical moment, who opposed asking for help all he wanted was to be left alone.
“He overcame several episodes in which he was out of breath and drowned.
There were days when it was better day, so I thought it would get better, unfortunately his health became complicated and there was nothing left to do, “says Jaume.
Leonardo was afraid of going through the same suffering as his other relatives in an ICU. And it was no less; in a year of the pandemic, This disease was taken to his grandma, At three uncles, From cousins and one brother.
“There are 8 relatives who have painfully gone because of this virus that makes no distinction. My brother did not want to go to the clinic because, as our relatives were intubated and then died, this scared him. He preferred die at home, ”Sanchez explained.
Jaume says that what is happening to his family is like a horror movie about the successive deaths and social stigma that he now has to endure for having had his brother several days without life in the house .
“Neighbors in the urbanization, despite the tragedy we were facing for this new loss, attacked and insulted us because Leonardo’s body had been inside the room for more than 32 hours and we did not know what to do,” adds Jaume, who resided in the same dwelling.
Only until Wednesday (April 14) in the morning officials of the Secretary of Health they met the requirement and moved the corpse to the morgue to apply the protocols.
“My relatives didn’t pay attention to this virus, they didn’t take care of it, they thought it was harmless; my brother, although he already knew how dangerous it was, didn’t take care of it properly and it wasn’t saved either. All this tragedy it must serve as an example to everyone so that they take care of themselves and never hesitate to go to a clinic because only in this way are there possibilities of saving themselves “, pointed out Jaume Sánchez.