Mexico

María del Rosario Cisneros Valdez – a General Practitioner at ISSSTE Hospital General, Poza Rica de Hidalgo, Veracruz, Mexico – passed away on 26 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Maria was 65 years old. According to the union leader, it was due to atypical pneumonia, but they expect results from COVID-19. Although staff of the institution has not issued a message, Petra Carreón Muñoz, general secretary of the SNTISSSTE section 35, spoke about it, who said that the death was due to atypical pneumonia in a heart attack. The blood sample was sent to the state public health laboratory in Veracruz port to find out the result; According to the co-workers of the now-defunct, since the beginning of the contingency, Dr. María del Rosario asked her union representative Carmen Arenas t...