Dr. Alejandro Emilio Báez Van-Epps, the father of former Health Executive Adviser Amado Alejandro Báez, died after spending several days in hospital with Covid-19.
The information was provided by Alejandro Báez, who was also the former director of the COVID-19 Committee for the Management of Health Emergencies in the previous government.
Writing an account of what happened to the family after their parents became infected with the virus, the prominent specialist said that they had four weeks struggling with complications from Covid to their parents. His mother Victoria is still hospitalized with the disease.
“On December 24, my father went into cardiac arrest, I revived him and took him to the same intensive care unit (just a few meters away) from my mother. A few days better than others, the day before his death he grabbed me by the hand and I told him repeatedly: everything will be fine, everything will be fine.
“On the 31st at home there was no appetite for the holiday. First, to celebrate the year, I brought Daddy a player with a super Spotify list of his favorite classical music, he gave me satisfaction knowing that he would like that gift. They let me into the ICU and told me, Dr. Báez, to stay there. I didn’t have to say more “, was part of the message published by his son who dedicated 70 years of his life to medicine and 30 to teaching.
He claimed that the team tried to revive him professionally, for which he appreciated his compassion at such a difficult time.
Dr. Báez Van-Epps was buried yesterday. “A sad and empty ceremony, which is not representative of the life of a man who from the age of 16 has dedicated 70 consecutive years to medicine,” said his son.
He graduated from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) in 1958, and taught at UNPHU for 30 years. In addition to Alejandro, he and his wife Victoria fathered Alexandra.
“Rest in peace, father, thank you for all that you have been and for all that you have given us,” Báez concludes his letter to his father.
In an interview with Listín Diario on June 16, when he was director of the COVID-19 Health Emergency Management Committee, Alejandro Báez stressed the need for citizens to take care of themselves because “the virus kills”.
You must be afraid of the virus
He was convinced that COVID-19 must be afraid of him. “The virus gets sick, the virus kills, there are hundreds of Dominicans who have lost their lives because of this virus and we have to understand that there are millions of Dominicans who have made sacrifices, so that we are in a better place and that the most The bad thing that can happen is relax the measures on a personal level, because I’m fed up, “he said until then.
In the interview published on June 16 in the section “A meeting with Covidul”, the doctor recalled the sacrifices he made to take care of his parents, due to his advanced age, so that they were in the group of vulnerable people. He said he had to meet them from afar.
“It is very difficult for me to be in the country and not be able to live with my parents. You visit them sporadically, but I don’t hug them, I keep my distance, I wear masks, clean hands, it’s a matter of understanding that you have to invest in the biggest ones, not to lose much for a little bit ”.
We can express our affection and socialize in a different way, it is to change the way we see things and go “from mine to the common” and that we need to take more care of those over 60 with comorbidities.