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| Dr. Alex Hsu, left, and nurse Araceli Buendia Llagan died from the coronavirus. |
An ICU nurse from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami has become the latest health worker who died after treating patients for coronavirus, reports CBS4.
The death of Araceli Buendia Llagan, a Filipina American, comes three days after Dr. Alex Hsu, 67, of Broward County, Florida died on March 24, according to the Sun Sentinel.
Ît is not clear if the two contracted COVID-19 from treating patients or elsewhere.
“Araceli dedicated nearly 33 years of her life treating some of our most critically ill patients,” Jackson Memorial Hospital said in a statement. “During her long and storied career, she also mentored and trained other nurses, and was a champion for the profession. As we battle this global public health crisis, caregivers throughout the world are bravely serving on the frontlines, often putting their patients’ lives before theirs. These medical professionals – people like Araceli – are the true heroes, and we salute them all.”
Hsu’s daughter declined to comment, telling the Sun Sentinel “I really need to be with my family.”
“It’s so sad,” a receptionist at Hsu’s medical office told the paper.
Last Tuesday in New York City, Mount Sinai Hospital West nurse Kious Kelly, 48, died. The hospital was reportedly suffering a shortage of personal protection gear, according to the Daily Mail.
The danger facing medical personnel caring for those infected with the coronavirus is high because of the shortage of personal protective gear.
“When nurses and doctors get sick from this virus who is going to be left to take care of the public?” asked registered nurse Bonnie Castillo, exectutive director of National Nurses United, the nation's largest union of nurses. The NNU has been pushing for more personal protective gear such as masks and gowns, ventilators and tests.
Despite the risk of contracting COVID-19, nurses and doctors continue to show up to work.
Views From the Edge contributed to this report.
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