This Wednesday, Dr. Manuel Garrido Fernández, 57, who was working at the Alameda health center in the capital, died of complications derived from the coronavirus. This doctor is the second fatal victim of the virus in Primary Care.

The Official College of Physicians of Madrid (ICOMEM), which has confirmed the death in a statement, has conveyed its condolences and support to the families, in addition to its regret to friends and colleagues with whom it shared its professional practice.

"It is very hard to have to say goodbye to another colleague who has given his life for the lives of others. Our eternal admiration and respect. His death will not be forgotten but will serve as an incentive to continue working to face this disease" , has assured the president of the entity, Miguel Ángel Sánchez Chillón.

Likewise, ICOMEM thanked the delivery that the toilets are demonstrating, "especially to those who, due to their vocation, have shared with Dr. Garrido Fernández this terrible outcome." With this death, 35 doctors have died throughout Spain during this pandemic, 14 of them belonged to the Primary Care service.

In recent dates, several doctors in the region have died of coronavirus. This is the case of the head of the surgery service at the La Paz University Hospital, Joaquín Díaz Domínguez, who died yesterday, and the head of Neurosurgery at Puerta de Hierro, Jesús Vaquero.

The medical director and acting manager of the Santa Cristina University Hospital in Madrid, Emilio Úcar Corral, also died of Covid-19.

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.

In addition, the medical director of the Beata María Ana Hospital, Aurelio Capilla, died on Sunday of the coronavirus, according to the center in a statement.

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