Piter Guevara, the Cuban doctor who rose to fame After disassembling his stethoscope to connect it to an oxygen cylinder and saving the lives of two patients with coronavirus, he was discharged this Wednesday after recovering from the infection suffered with this disease.
“Doctor Piter has already been discharged. Thank God he was able to win this battle, and to all those who prayed for his recovery. And to the great work of the therapy room team at the Placetas General Hospital,” reported a user of the Facebook group.'We are all Placetas'.
“Thank God he is already home,” he confirmed toCyberCubathe young man's wife, Dr. Lismary Bravo. Piter, whose real name is Pedro Julio Guevara Miranda,was admitted to intensive care reported serious.
The news shocked many, who learned about his story through social networks and the press. "My God! You are great, we give ourselves to you as the only savior, with tears in our eyes and regretting not having done it sooner. Please heal my husband, I ask you on my knees," his wife wrote in her social networks.
The 26-year-old doctor, who was nicknamed the "stethoscope hero" on social media, was admitted to the intensive care room of the Daniel Codorniú Pruna de Placetas General Hospital, in Villa Clara.
However, after several days of uncertainty, Dr. GuevaraHe managed to recover and abandon intensive care salt in which he was permanently connected to a medical oxygen cylinder, due to the severity of his health condition.
This Wednesday, after a difficult fight for his life, the famous doctor from Placetas was discharged and is with his wife and young daughter at home.
"I am not a hero by any means, it is my duty to save", stated Dr. Guevara when his identity became known, after his story went viral on social networks. It was the Twitter user known as The Engineer, who investigated this doctor and found his real identity to express the admiration that his ingenuity aroused among many Cubans.
"I did it without the slightest intention of recognition. Right now I feel like the proudest doctor in the world," the doctor responded when he learned of the repercussions of his "invention."
"You are the hero of many," The Engineer replied, conveying the feelings of all those who saw in his gesture a perceptive solution to save lives: a feat of a professional who works with barely any resources and uses all his ingenuity to provide the best possible care for their patients.
"They have given me back the desire I had to work when I graduated," declared the young doctor, moved by the admiration and solidarity that so many Cubans showed him.
The image of his disassembled stethoscope serving as a conduit for medical oxygen constituted adenounces the lack of resources and medicines to face the pandemic of the coronavirus in Cuba, in the midst of the health crisis that affects hospitals and isolation centers throughout the country.
"Thank you for your prayers and for showing me how much you love me. The most important thing is to hold on to hope, and that is why, to continue saving lives, I keep fighting," said Dr. Piter, who is now at home with the his.
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