A prisoner from Bayamón prison dies

The designated secretary of the Correction and Rehabilitation Department (DCR) Ana Escobar Pabón this Sunday confirmed the death of a prisoner at the 501 Correctional Facility in Bayamón who had tested positive for COVID-19 in the hospital for other health complications.

In this complex, the service is responsible for an outbreak of the virus after 143 prisoners from module 1 were infected with the virus. Two of those prisoners have been hospitalized.

“We have the death of a member of the correctional population who, at the time he left to receive medical services, was not known to be a COVID-19 positive patient. He doesn’t go to hospital because of symptoms of COVID-19, he had illnesses that needed hospital treatment ”, the officer appointed The new day.

Escobar Pabón pointed out that the man was subjected to a virus antigen test on Jan. 2, but it was negative. Later, a molecular test they did in hospital yielded a positive result. He specified that the result of that test had been received yesterday, Tuesday, and that he died in the evening of the same day.

When asked about the prisoner’s cause of death, the secretary said the death was not related to the virus.

“The doctor preparing the report does not state that it is due to COVID-19, but to a septic ‘shock'”, detailed for this medium. “It was a person with a range of conditions that unfortunately caused this,” he added, saying he does not know if the inmate had symptoms related to the disease.

According to the Mayo Clinic, “Sepsis is a life-threatening disease that results from the body’s response to an infection. Normally, the body releases chemicals into the bloodstream to fight infections. “