Physician who died in Venezuela buried

FROM CUBA
Physician who died in Venezuela buried

HAVANA, Cuba - May 25 (José Antonio Fornaris, Cuba-Verdad /
www.cubanet.org) - A 47-year-old physician who had been sent to
Venezuela to participate in the government's Barrio Adentro program died
there after ingesting wood alcohol. He was buried Sunday in his native
San Antonio de las Vegas, south of Havana.

According to reports, Félix Figueredo ingested the poisonous alcohol in
a party organized in honor of his first anniversary working in
Venezuela. He was to have returned to Cuba on vacation shortly.

Figueredo was hospitalized for several days in a coma. His sister had to
travel to Venezuela to authorize he be removed from life support.

Figueredo was chief of intensive therapy in the San José de las Lajas
hospital in Havana province before going to Venezuela.

Figueredo leaves a wife and son, who is himself studying medicine.

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