Asked if an investigation would be opened into the death of a forty-something woman with COVID-19 who died over the weekend because she had not been admitted to the Infectious Disease Clinic — and also where coronavirus-infected patients who needed mechanical ventilation were being sent these days — Minister of Health Arben Taravari said the woman had had acute leukemia and had been given the appropriate medical care at the Hematology Clinic.
The patient was treated at the Hematology Clinic according to all protocols and regulations regarding the treatment of a patient with such diseases. The patient was somewhere around 48 or 47 years old, I’m not sure, but that was her age, in her forties,” Minister Taravari said.
She was infected with SARS-CoV-2, the minister said, adding that it was “a normal infection. In the meantime, an anesthesiologist and an infectious disease specialist had been called for a consult and they suggested a course of treatment.”
