translated from Spanish: ‘My husband is serious at Nutrition, they won’t let me see it and I’m little informed’

On Tuesday, March 24, Blanca Hernández last saw her husband, Juan Pablo León, who entered the National Institute of Nutrition as a suspected case of COVID-19. It was at 1:40 p.m. that day when he was admitted and she hasn’t seen him again. 
They maintained contact only by cell phone, while John Paul was conscious and able to communicate, but his health, despite being 40 years old and no conditions of prior risk, has worsened.
On Wednesday 25, Juan Pablo informed Blanca, by telephone, that she had tested positive for COVID-19. He had no history of travel or any contact with any suspicious or confirmed cases. 
Read: COVID-19: States announce quick tests, give minimal data of their origin and then drop their purchase
On Wednesday, Blanca received the call, around 2:30 p.m., from a nutrition doctor. She told her her her husband was evolving well. But at 10:30 the night that same day, another doctor called him to let him know he was going to be intubated. 
“He told me that he needed my phone authorization because my husband was already sedated and could not give himself the authorization. That was the last time a doctor at the institute spoke to me,” Says Blanca in an interview with Political Animal.
On Thursday 26 she was insisting on hospital phones for information, but only got her the bed number and the area where her husband was located: in semi-critical intensive care. 
It was until 3:30 p.m. that day that a nurse called Blanca to tell her that John Paul would be admitted to the operating room. “He told me that his situation had been aggravated by a lung problem, that he would look for me by a doctor to talk to me, but he didn’t call me.”
Find out: IMSS online disability for coronavirus: Who can process it and how it is obtained
Blanca had no further information. He even asked relatives to go to the hospital to ask but they didn’t want to tell them anything. 
“They don’t let us see my husband not only because of the risk of contagion, no one can see him, but besides, I’m in confinement for being familiar with a confirmed case, we’re quarantined at home by my seven-year-old daughter and my parents, even though we’ve all been tested and negative.” 
The hospital’s argument for not giving information to Blanca’s relatives when they went to the institution to request it is that Juan Pablo’s health status is confidential information that they can only give to their legal representative, in this case Blanca. 
It was until the morning of Friday, March 27, that the director of the National Institute of Nutrition phoned her, after she posted a message on social media demanding information. 
Read more: No water and overcrowded in tents: this is how they face the threat of 19-S’s affected coronavirus 
“He apologized to me, he told me that they are saturated, that the situation is overrun and the priority is to care for the sick, I understand, but I only ask to be spoken to inform me, he is my husband and I need to know how he is, I do not ask the director to speak to me, to call me someone from social work and tell me what he is, with that,”. 
The principal of the institute committed to Blanca who will now call him, at least twice a day, at 2 pm and 9 pm. 
The information white was given is that her husband had surgery to drain fluid from both lungs, and that the next six days will be critical, because the virus can severely attack her body. 
“I don’t understand why it’s gotten worse. He’s 40 years old, he’s not obese, he doesn’t have diabetes, he doesn’t have hypertension, and I have his medical history to check it, because now I’m told he has high blood pressure, but he didn’t suffer before that, it can be a lack of oxygen, the same disease, but he had no prior risk condition.”
Blanca also doesn’t explain her husband’s contagion. He had no prior trip, even inside the country, no contact with a suspicious or confirmed case, at least that is what they believe. 
“I already told my husband’s job that he has COVID-19, he’s a manager at a distribution center, they tell me there’s no reporting of suspicious or confirmed cases in the company.” No one around, says Blanca, with coronaviruses, no neighbors, no relatives, no one close. 
Although she did travel, but the dates don’t match for her to have been given, and her COVID-19 test came back negative. 
“I went to America, but I came back on February 6. The bills don’t come out, by the time he got sick it was over a month, and I didn’t come back positive on the test. I was sick, but I was told it was influenza, my private doctor told me that, even gave me the flu test and gave positive. They gave me treatment and I got better. Then my husband got sick and got sick, the doctor diagnosed him with pneumonia and he was the one who referred him to the National Institute of Nutrition.” 
Now Blanca only expects the information to flow further, as the next six critical days pass for John Paul.
What we do in Animal Político requires professional journalists, teamwork, dialogue with readers and something very important: independence. You can help us keep going. Be part of the team.
Subscribe to Animal Político, receive benefits and support free journalism #YoSoyAnimal.

Original source in Spanish