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GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 01:32 PM Nov 2017

VZ: Due to a shortage of medicines, Adrin Guacarn died, the boy who sang to John Paul II

The singer suffered from kidney failure. At the Domingo Luciani Hospital they did not give him the treatment he required

By ISAAC GONZÁLEZ MENDOZA | @SASAMENDOZ
NOVEMBER 17, 2017 07:45 AM | UPDATED ON NOVEMBER 17, 2017 10:02 AM

After a day of agony, on Thursday at 10:30 pm, the singer Adrián Guacarán died, who became famous as a child when he sang "El Peregrino" to Pope John Paul II during his visit to Venezuela.

His wife, Sheila de Guacaran, explained to El Nacional Web that the 44-year-old musician had kidney failure, which led to him filling up with fluid until he collapsed.

He pointed out that the family had difficulties in obtaining medicines. Albumin and aldactone (diuretic) were urgently needed, but at Domingo Luciani Hospital, where Guacarán died, there was no availability. The singer asked for the drugs in a message on his Twitter account.

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http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/sociedad/fallecio-adrian-guacaran-quien-nino-canto-papa-juan-pablo_211930

But the Bolivarian Revolution lives on! So what if a few people of unimportance must die for the greater good!? (I guess they ran out of sausage casings to use as filters in the dialysis machines again?)
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