05/24/2021 4:24 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/24/2021 4:24 PM
The death of a 22-year-old girl, in the city of Santa Fe, exposed the difficulties that the health system is going through in this province, where, for more than a week,
collapse
was raised in some cities due
to the
lack of intensive care beds
to care for patients affected by covid-19.
Lara Arreguiz
, a young veterinary student who was insulin dependent,
died on Friday
.
Her mother, Claudia Sánchez, published a photo of her daughter
lying on the floor of a hospital
while waiting to be treated.
“We went in and Lara was already very sick, she was drowning.
I insisted three times on admission to please let us in because he
was fainting
.
They left us in a corridor, where patients with or without Covid passed, "the woman said about what she experienced at the Iturraspe Hospital, in the capital of Santa Fe.
“(Lara) He told me he wanted to lie down and I asked security if I could lie down on a gurney in the hall, but he said no.
'I'm going to lie down on the floor,' he told me.
Then a woman saw us who
lent us her jacket to cover it because of the cold,
”Sánchez explained.
Lara Arreguiz was 22 years old.
He was a veterinary student and an insulin dependent.
It was the third time he had taken her to a health center.
On Thursday 13 the young woman had felt the first symptoms compatible with coronavirus.
A day later the discomfort was greater.
As she lives alone in the town of Esperanza due to her studies in Veterinary Sciences, she asked her mother to come find her.
Noticing that her condition was deteriorating, on Sunday the family decided to take her to the Protomédico hospital, according to her mother.
"They told us that it could be Covid, but that at that time they
did not have the means to attend to it and they sent us home,
" the woman told Aire de Santa Fe.
On Monday, the 17th, they returned to the place, where they swabbed her, performed plates and prescribed antibiotics.
Back at home, she
felt bad again
, so they decided to take her to the new Iturraspe hospital.
The woman reported that she was
waiting for hours in that corridor
.
"I understand the health collapse, but it hurts me to have seen her
lying on the floor without breathing
and that no one does anything," Lara's mother said.
At the insistence and despair of her mother, Lara was admitted and the procedures were carried out so that she was admitted to a conditioned sector for patients with Covid in the old Iturraspe hospital.
When they were going to transfer her by ambulance, Sánchez was able to have the last contact with her daughter.
Then it was isolated for being close contact.
It was her father, who had already had coronavirus, who could visit her and see her through a window.
On Wednesday the 19th she was informed that she was going to be transferred to an intermediate bed, where she was given drip insulin.
A day later her blood glucose was under control, but complications arose with her respiratory symptoms as her lungs were severely affected by the virus.
They transferred her to an intensive care bed and on Friday morning, after suffering
three cardiac arrests
, she died.
His parents have no suspicions of how he was infected.
She lived alone and didn't go out much.
A few days before feeling the first symptoms, he had started going to a gym.
Between October and February, due to the pandemic, he had settled in his parents' house, in the capital of Santa Fe.
This year he took up his studies in virtual form, already located in his department, in Esperanza.
She was signed up to be vaccinated and was waiting her turn because of her pre-existing illness.
In Santa Fe it is expected that this week the inoculation of the population between 18 and 59 years old with comorbidities will begin.
Her mother said she hoped that her daughter's story "serves so that with the next Larita they have more consideration."
“We may have failed.
And if we fail, we must correct.
But Lara had her bed, was cared for and was in a public institution for care, "said Francisco Villano, director of Iturraspe, to Aire de Santa Fe.
Villano assured that in recent days they had all the intensive therapy beds occupied and that they had to locate patients with a respirator on guard duty.
On Monday they had two free critical beds and four for general hospitalization.
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