COVID-19: ARSA and ULSBA confirm first fatal victim in Alentejo / Beja.
Regional Administration Health of Alentejo and Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo confirm first fatal victim in Alentejo. News revealed yesterday by Lidador News.
The Regional Health Administration of Alentejo (LAND) and the Baixo Alentejo Local Health Unit (ULSBA) issued a statement confirming the news released yesterday exclusively by Lidador NotĂcias (LN) of the first death recorded in Alentejo by Covid-19.
As our website had revealed, this is a man, of 87 year old, resident in Beja and who was hospitalized at José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital, in the city Alentejo, from day 14 April.
What ARSA and ULSBA do not mention is that the octogenarian was a user of Lar Nobre Freira, where there are two other positive cases, also admitted to that hospital unit.
"Unfortunately, due to the complexity of the clinical picture presented, this would be a predictable outcome ”, said JosĂ© AnĂbal Soares, Clinical Director of ULSBA.
Turn, Jose Robalo, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ARSA, justified that “after confirmation of infection, by Covid-19, the information will be updated and included in the status report, issued by the Directorate-General for Health, on 22 of April", concluded.
Yesterday in your facebook page, the Mayor of Beja, Paul Arsenio, “Mourned the death” of one of the three infected in the home, showing upset because he only had official knowledge of the case “by a call from the home management in the middle of the afternoon”, justified.
Yesterday's exclusive news from Lidador News
He passed away at dawn this Monday, a man of 87 year old, one of the three users of Lar Nobre Freire, Beja, who was admitted to the José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital, in the city Alentejo, first death in the Alentejo region by Covid-19.
The octogenarian was hospitalized since last day 14 April, being one of those infected by that institution with Covid-19 and death occurred around 02,00 hours, case that was known three hours later, when a family member posted a post on your facebook page, saying goodbye to the same.
To the LN source of the Public Health Unit (UPS) the Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo (ULSBA), confirmed the patient's death, justifying that “there is still no knowledge of the death report, to confirm whether it went with Covid-19 or Covid-19 ”, justifying the same source as the death occurred today, "The same should only appear in the DGS data in tomorrow's report", finished.
According to found the LN, the funeral will take place tomorrow at 10,00 hours, leaving the cup of the Legal Medical Office for the Beja Cemetery, not being subjected to autopsy. The victim suffered from other health problems, namely pulmonary and renal and the infection will have accelerated the degradation of the octogenarian health status.
This Monday morning, President of the Chamber of Beja, had posted on social media the information that “since Tuesday, date when the second and third positive cases were confirmed at Lar Nobre Freire, that in the municipality of Beja, there is no record of more positive cases of Covid-19, so there are five days ”, adding Paulo Arsénio that “this weekend we still received the good news of registering the first two cases of recovered / cured in the municipality”, concluded.
According to the data that the mayor had revealed, in the previous days there would be eleven positive cases in the municipality of Beja, so in view of the two cases of recovered and the registered death, now eight will be infected.
In the report released this Monday by DGS, the Alentejo presents 161 infetados, registering no fatal victims, with the municipality of Beja to present 9 com infetados Covid 19.
Lar Nobre Freire target of disinfection
The Emergency Protection and Relief Unit (UEPS) da GNR, proceeded on Saturday to disinfect and clean the first floor of Lar Nobre freire, in Beja, where there are three users infected with Covid-19 admitted to the José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital.
The intervention followed a request from the Municipality of Beja and the institution of social solidarity, located in the historic area of ​​the city and which according to Paulo Arsénio, president of the city council, “Implied the departure of 33 users during a substantial part of the day to the facilities of the Diocesan Seminary, where they will stay until 20,00 hours", justified.
This day, and regarding cases of infection by Covid-19, the mayor of Beja, assured that in the municipality “there are still 11 positive cases, no more cases have been reported since last Monday ”, words of Paulo Arsénio that contradict the numbers of the DGS that that day gave 6 positive cases and in the report from Wednesday to today, the existence of nine infected.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
