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| Collaborates in a project that uses radiation therapy to treat patients with COVID-19 pneumonia | The mayor, Juan José Cánovas, has congratulated the young doctor from Totanera, Sandra González Montiel, who is collaborating on a project that uses radiotherapy to treat patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, at the Sant Joan hospital in Alicante, where he develops your professional practice.The first mayor has indicated, through a sent letter, "the pride" that represents for this city that a neighbor from Totanera, a health professional, is a promoter and partner in the research and study of this treatment for patients with coronavirus through the application of this procedure.This technique, which is being studied, can help coronavirus patients in whom the treatments that are being used to fight this disease have failed; whose hospital center has been the first in the Valencian Community to apply radiotherapy and the second in Spain.Radiation therapy for COVID-19 patients is the same treatment used for cancer patients but in very low doses.

The first patients have already been treated in a trial that plans to initially include ten people.Its application, which is a technique that was already developed in the 1930s when there were no such advanced antibiotic drugs for pneumonia patients, apparently contributes to reducing the inflammation of the lungs that some coronavirus patients suffer, which suddenly worsen at a week after the first symptoms started.Cánovas has indicated that “in these complicated times of social and health crisis due to the epidemic, and of so much debate in relation to the real and necessary commitment to Public Health, it is to thank and admire the predisposition of medical professionals in the search for alternatives that endorse results and early responses to the disease; and if these are totaneros, even more ”.The mayor has communicated this initiative of the neighboring Alicante hospital to the Murcian health adviser, Dr.

Manuel Villegas, and to the delegate of the Government in Murcia, José Vélez, in order for them to have proof of this trial as the heads of both Public Administrations in the region.Sandra González Montiel is a young resident doctor in the specialty of Oncology at the Hospital Universitari Sant Joan in Alicante; and studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Murcia, taking a fourth year at the Faculté Libre de Médecine in Lille (France).Professionals from the Pneumology, Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases services of the Alicante hospital center have been participating in the study, the results of which are expected to see the light in a few days in order to verify an effective response in patients who do not respond to pharmacological treatments.

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Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana