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The doctor and head of the General Surgery and Digestive Surgery Service at the La Paz University Hospital, Joaquín Díaz Domínguez, 64, died this Saturday as a result of having been infected with coronaviurs at the medical center itself. This surgeon with extensive experience in the center was medical director of the Hospital de La Paz and was a professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid. (UAM)

After learning the news, employees of the center gathered on Saturday afternoon to pay tribute and remain silent for this doctor "loved by all" his colleagues , as indicated by the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, on social networks, who He has conveyed his condolences to family and friends, according to Europa Press.

To his curriculum it is added that he received the Doctorate Prize from the López Sánchez Foundation, granted by the Royal National Academy of Medicine and that he is the author of several publications such as the book 'History of Biliary Surgery in Spain'. Expert in thyroid and breast cancer, he had been practicing medicine for more than 40 years.

The Almerian municipality of Carboneras has regretted the loss of the doctor who spent the last 50 years in the town and who was the crier of the past San Antonio festivities, in June 2019. "Joaquín died at 8:00 pm on Saturday due to coronavirus , in La Paz, where he became infected helping the patients of the Covid-19 and not to leave the rest of his companions alone, although he did not have that role. He has been a true hero. Carboneras will always remember him. DEP ", he pointed out in social networks one of the councilors of the municipality.

For her part, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, stated on Twitter that Madrid health has suffered two other "terrible losses ": the death of Díaz and that of the chief of Neurosurgery at Puerta de Hierro, Jesús Vaquero .

Yesterday, the medical director and acting manager of the Santa Cristina University Hospital in Madrid, Emilio Úcar Corral, died of Covid-19, according to the Spanish Society of Health Managers (SEDISA).

To date, nine toilets have died from this disease. Previously, a 61-year-old SUMMA doctor, a 54-year-old radio physicist from the Hospital de La Princesa, a 57-year-old Severo Ochoa nurse, and two Primary Care professionals: a nursing assistant and a warden, had died. that of this manager is added. Also this week an ambulance driver from the Santa Sofía company lost his life.

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