Julio Rodríguez
06/01/2020 - 12:13
- Clarín.com
- Society
A 14-year-old girl died in Resistencia, Chaco, and became the 53rd victim of the coronavirus and the youngest victim of the virus in the country. In less than 36 hours, a pneumonia caused by COVID-19 ended his life.
Clarín health authorities told Clarín that the girl remained hospitalized in Pill 6 of the establishment. He had mechanical respiratory support and his underlying autoimmune disease was lupus, aggravated by kidney failure and a postoperative period of acute appendicitis with pulmonary involvement. "He died of pneumonia acquired by coronavirus," they told Clarín.
The deceased young woman was from Resistencia, from a very humble family and until recently, they treated her for lupus at the pediatric hospital in Resistencia. When she turned 14, she began to be treated for her illness at the Julio C. Perrando Hospital, sources from that hospital told Clarín.
"She was a known patient," they explained. The teenager entered complicated on Saturday morning. She was admitted, diagnosed, confirmed to have a positive COVID-19, pneumonia, a respirator, and died in less than 36 hours.
She was accompanied by her mother, of very humble condition. "We are all very shocked, it is a very sad record that Chaco is the youngest victim of coronavirus in the entire country," said the Chaco health authorities.
The province's Ministry of Public Health reported that so far 889 positive cases of COVID-19 had been registered, of which 345 had already been definitively discharged. In addition, there are 50 people hospitalized and 53 deaths.
As you will remember, Chaco also has the sad record that a 4-year-old boy was the smallest infected in Latin America. In this province, there are already 53 deceased and now the infections have left the Resistance microcenter (where the majority of those infected are) and moved to the periphery.
The Toba neighborhood, in the Qom community, is where infections have exploded in the last 30 days. In fact, there are already 16 deaths in that community, almost a third of the total deaths in all of Chaco.
As a result, in mid-May the provincial government decided to isolate and restrict the exits and accesses to the Toba neighborhood (where there are Qom settlements with other names). The neighborhood is located on the edge of Route 11 that connects Resistencia with Buenos Aires and is a “complicated” settlement: the sale of alcohol and drugs is almost uncontrollable and there is a high level of suicide, especially in young people, due to the I just use drugs.
