Saint Joseph.- “Kill her!” Cried a man shouting outside a hospital of Tegucigalpa at the moment in which a Honduran who entered in the morning to Honduras from Taiwan, U.S Y The Savior On a commercial flight with respiratory symptoms of suspected coronavirus, he entered an ambulance to the medical center urgently, in a case that caused national alarm.
“Kill her, kill her, kill her, so that 9 million Hondurans live! Kill her! ”, The man implored in front of the gate of the National Cardiopulmonary Institute, in the Honduran capital, at the moment when the emergency relief unit 210 of the emergency service 9 1 1 entered the hospital complex with the patient.
The 52-year-old woman traveled on vacation to Taiwan and returned to Honduras with a scale in Los Angeles California, and then in San Salvador, from where he went to Tegucigalpa and arrived on Honduran soil around 09:30 local time (same time from central Mexico).
With cough, runny nose and breathing difficulties, the Honduran told in Los Angeles that in Taiwan He contacted a person with similar symptoms on a train, and Honduras was alerted to activate health protocols.
Upon arriving at Honduras He was isolated for about two hours in a room at Toncontín International Airport, in Tegucigalpa, and at noon he was sent to the Institute.
The Undersecretary of Health of Honduras, Nery Cerrato, said he underwent tests in the nasal passages and throat, among others, to confirm or rule out if he suffers from coronavirus or Covid-19 and the result is pending.
The news that he would be the first sick person in Honduras (and Central America) of coronavirus, which emerged last December in China, it spread through Honduran soil quickly and inexactly by various means and generated a shock crisis that was whipped up by the Honduran government.
After announcing that the woman “is out of danger” and “stable”, the Secretary of Health of Honduras, Alba Flores, accused that “the approach that has been made at this time (the problem) has been quite delicate and, we could say , irresponsibly. ”
“I am sorry to say this: it is the life of a person, it is the life of a family and it is the emotional state of a population,” he said.
“A normal protocol is followed. The big difference is that she comes from a country where the virus has circulated, but it is not that we have to be alarmed by that, ”he explained, regretting that a“ great alarm ”arose in“ the whole country ”.
“We have a country in a state of alarm, which is not alert, (is) alarm,” he said.
“Please” inform the population with “responsibility” in situations of human rights and legality, he asked.
Customs of Honduras He reported that the woman’s luggage was decontaminated and quarantined and that the patient will be isolated until the symptoms cease and two negative results are obtained in the laboratory of respiratory samples separated by at least 48 hours.
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