Spanish media correspondent died in Venezuela for failing to get a hospital to treat him

The journalist Angel Rafael Cerdeño, correspondent of Telecinco and other Spanish media in Caracas, died at 38 for not getting a hospital to treat him.

According to Ser chain, the news came from one of her colleagues from Nius Diario, a medium with which the journalist also collaborated.

According to what the communicator said, Ángel Cerdeño “nothing was right, apparently”. Last Thursday he started to feel bad and fainted. “At this moment, He embarked on the usual journey of seeking a hospital to treat him in Caracas“, development.

And I add: “He had no luck with the first two, where they told him there weren’t even any doctors. In the public hospitals of Venezuela, there are few. No water, no sheets, no medicine and no doctors. In the private sector there are some, but they cost a lot of money and only 2% of the population can afford them ”.

After a visit to various medical centers, Sardinia managed to seek treatment. But, according to his partner, “They told him they didn’t know what was wrong with him and they sent him home”.

“What if (rest), and if (take) amoxicillin – which is one of the few drugs that can still be found safely in pharmacies – and in a few days they would be doing tests for elucidate the origin of your disease. He did not pass the tests. Venezuela killed him», He concluded.

For its part, the newspaper Spanish published on its website which Ángel had been married to his wife, Viviana, for two decades, with whom he had three children. As a contributor to Media set, the journalist worked for Telecinco and the newspaper Nius.

“He told the daily newspaper of Venezuela, but his death also shows the sanitary lagoons of a devastated country. This reality that Angel ended up suffering in his flesh, the bad situation of his country in his last hours of life. We will never know if he would still be alive if he had not been there, “he added. Esther Yanez, partner of the aforementioned digital newspaper.

Angel himself, the day he passed out, wrote to a friend. “I couldn’t breathe, I thought I was going to die. And so I had to go to other hospitals until I reached the University Clinic where they treated me with kicks and in inhumane conditions.», He detailed, in a few words which today shake us knowing the sad end.

“There, patients with COVID-19 and without COVID-19 stay in the same place,” he continued; and concluded: “Venezuela is facing a collapsed health system. It’s one thing that we say in a report and another that we experience it firsthand.”.

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