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Family of man who died of heart problems in Mississippi is asking people to get COVID-19 vaccinations after 43 hospitals in three states were unable to accept him due to full cardiac intensive care units .
Ray Martin DeMonia passed away last week in Meridian, Mississippi. He was three days away from his 74th birthday and was a well-known native of Cullman, Alabama, his family said.
DeMonia suffered from a cardiac event and emergency personnel at Cullman Regional Medical Center had to get her to the nearest available bed, located nearly 200 miles away in a Mississippi hospital.
In their obituary, DeMonia’s family urged people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
“In Ray’s honor, please get the vaccine if you haven’t, in an effort to free up resources for non-COVID emergencies,” the obituary reads. “He wouldn’t want another family to go through what his did.”
“Ray DeMonia was like no other,” reads his obituary.
DeMonia spent 40 years in the antique business in Alabama.
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As of Thursday, there are 60 more intensive care patients in Alabama than there are beds, and 51% of those patients have tested positive for COVID-19.
The United States has recorded more than 40.6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 655,800 deaths. Cases have increased in parts of the country in recent months due to the delta variant of the virus.
Hadley Hitson covers the Rural South for Montgomery Advertiser and Report for America. She can be reached at [email protected].
This article originally appeared on Montgomery Advertiser: Alabama man dies of heart attack after 43 hospitals turned him away
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