{"id":9372,"date":"2020-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=9372"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:40:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T11:10:32","slug":"victor-de-jesus-paediatrician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=9372","title":{"rendered":"Victor de Jesus, Paediatrician"},"content":{"rendered":" <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Victor_de_Jesus.jpg?w=810\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <p><p>Victor de Jesus &ndash; a Paediatrician at Hospital HIMA, Caguas, Puerto Rico &ndash; passed away on 10 April&nbsp;2020&nbsp;after suffering from COVID-19. Victor was 58 years old.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;He had been hospitalized for about three weeks and, from the beginning, he complicated himself and connected to a ventilator,&quot; said Dr. V&iacute;ctor Ramos, president of the College of Surgeons of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Mr. Armando Rodr&iacute;guez Ben&iacute;tez, president of the HIMA San Pablo Group , sent his condolences to the pediatrician&#39;s family.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&ldquo;This death is a great loss for our institution. We offer our deepest condolences to his wife, family, friends and colleagues in his private practice. Our doctors fought tirelessly for their colleague, but this terrible disease was more powerful.<strong> <\/strong>In honor of him, we will continue working with the diligence and sense of responsibility that our patients need from us, to together continue the fight against this pandemic, &rdquo;he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elnuevodia.com\/noticias\/locales\/nota\/falleceelprimerdoctorenpuertoricoaconsecuenciadelcoronavirus-2560091\/\">ELNUEVODIA<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?page_id=303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please help us in adding details.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p><p><\/p>\n \n \n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor de Jesus &ndash; a Paediatrician at Hospital HIMA, Caguas, Puerto Rico &ndash; passed away on 10 April&nbsp;2020&nbsp;after suffering from COVID-19. Victor was 58 years old. &quot;He had been hospitalized for about three weeks and, from the beginning, he complicated himself and connected to a ventilator,&quot; said Dr. V&iacute;ctor Ramos, president of the College of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[48,7019,7901],"tags":[1051,114,5746,113,880,792,6710,1060,6709,6582,6224,6434,6435,4005],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Victor_de_Jesus.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2483,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2483","url_meta":{"origin":9372,"position":0},"title":"Victor Batista Falla, editor","date":"April 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"V\u00edctor Batista Falla \u2013a Cuban editor and publisher \u2013 died on 12 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19. \u00a0 Batista's father, Agust\u00edn Batista y Gonz\u00e1lez de Mendoza, was the founder of the Trust Company of Cuba, the most powerful Cuban bank prior to the Cuban Revolution. 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