50 days intubated and with a 90% chance of dying, radiologist survived COVID-19

After 50 days of intubation and with only a 10% chance of survival, Jesús Cenobio, a radiologist at the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), survived COVID-19 with medical care and support from healthcare workers. of the General Hospital of the High Specialty Medical Unit (UMAE) “Dr. Gaudencio González Garza” of the National Medical Center The race.

Like his peers, Since the start of the pandemic, Jesus has evaluated several cases of COVID-19 in the radiology field, but he never imagined that he would have to suffer from the disease in a serious condition.

She started feeling unwell in November 2020 and thought the symptoms were mild; however, his health deteriorated until he was transferred to the hospital., where he immediately went to the respiratory therapy unit due to the severe conditions he arrived in.

After being valued The decision was made to intubate him and he remained on mechanical ventilation for eight and a half weeks.

“He had to have a tracheostomy and luckily with the care he received he recovered”Said Dr Guillermo Careaga Reyna, Director General of UMAE.

He added that see reinstated to Dr Jesús Cenobio in his activities and with the aim of helping patients, he becomes an example of motivation, “it shows us the value of the person, the conviction and the vocation to be and to move forward , after suffering such a serious illness, they are very important and worthy of praise ”.

“The support they have given me is debt for life”

The radiologist commented that when he was hospitalized at UMAE he had 60% saturation and he knew he had to be intubated, during his treatment he was extubated, but he did not respond and he was necessary to perform a tracheostomy.

“What is heartwarming is that the doctors would tell me all the time: don’t worry, he is going to leave, there was a nurse who took me by the hand and said: “I will take care of you and you will leave.”, he remembered.

After eight and a half weeks intubated “I regained consciousness, I could not speak and I communicated with signs and by moving my mouth ”. He later started rehabilitation therapies where his therapists said to him: “You are going to be able to go home, make him want more.

On December 31, Dr Jesús Cenobio was discharged; “The doctors told me: you are a warrior. TAll the support they have given me are life debts that I cannot pay with anything ”.

On June 4, the Ministry of Health reported 2,614,579 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 1,936,266 people cured and 228,568 confirmed deaths. Regarding general beds in hospitals, 13% are occupied and 14% are beds with ventilators.

The Department of Health (SSA) reported on the position of states in the Epidemiological fire for the next two weeks, from June 7 to 20, 2021: 19 states of the country will remain in green, nine in yellow, four in orange and, for the eighth consecutive week, no state will be colored red.

9 states will be green (low risk) of the epidemiological traffic light

Green colored states: Aguascalientes, Mexico, Chiapas, Coahuila, Durango, State of Mexico, Guerrero, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Morelos, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tlaxcala and Zacatecas.

Nine states in yellow (medium risk) of epidemiological traffic light

States in yellow: Baja California, Campeche, Chihuahua, Colima, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Sonora, Sinaloa and Veracruz.

Four states in orange traffic light (high risk)

States in orange: Baja California Sur, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Yucatán.

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