Romero was one of two men cremated this weekend. Carlos Peralta was the other. As we told you earlier, the Orange Walk resident died of a heart attack but his death has been listed as COVID related.
He died at a private facility in Belize City after being transferred from Northern Medical Specialist Plaza, a private facility in Orange Walk.
Dr. Marco Tulio Mendez who runs that facility says he didn't appear with COVID symptoms, but presenting chest pain:
Dr. Marco Tulio Mendez, Northern Medical Plaza
"Well it was negative. Basically they had not been in contact nobody, that's what they said and of course there was no fever, there was no vomiting and of course there was the chest pain. And due to that everybody thought that he probably had a chest problem, heart problem. He does have a history that he he has a heart problem and he suffers from hypertension. An electrocardiogram was done immediately and it did show that he had mild heart condition. That was the immediate diagnosis and of course there was only this chest pain that he was complaining and our specialist determine the heart condition."
Dr. Mendez's entire facility has been sanitized since Peralta was hospitalized there.
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