Merida | Firefighters find a university professor dehydrated and his partner dead

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Mérida.- An elderly couple was found by firefighters on Sunday, January 23, in their apartment, after three days without their neighbors seeing them. She, 74 years old, was dead, while her husband, 83 years old and a university professor, presented severe dehydration. He was transferred to the Instituto Autónomo Hospital Universitario de Los Andes (Iahula), where he remains in custody.

The septuagenarian was identified as Ysbelia Coromoto Hernández Romero, a bioanalyst and lawyer by profession. Her partner is Pedro José Salinas, an agronomist and professor at the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA). Both lived alone in an apartment in the Los Sauces residences, located in the Paseo Las Ferias sector of the city of Mérida.

The forensic review carried out by the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations Corps (Cicpc) determined that Hernández died of a heart attack.

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The minutes of the case issued by the Fire Department indicate that these people were “incommunicado in their homes due to health problems”. For her part, a neighbor of the couple told El Pitazo that they had both lived alone for years, because their children and grandchildren emigrated.

«She sometimes went to Caracas to spend time with relatives. She was a very active woman. He does have some health problems," said the person who requested anonymity.

Outstanding university professor

Pedro José Salinas studied agricultural engineering at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). In the 1960s he was a researcher, extensionist and teacher at the Shell Foundation. He completed master's and doctoral studies at the University of London, England.

Since 1968 he has been a professor at the ULA in the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Sciences and in the postgraduate course of the Faculty of Medicine. He directed the Venezuelan Forestry Magazine and founded the MedULA magazine. He is a member of the Association of Venezuelan Biomedical Journal Editors (Asereme), of the World Association of Medical Editors (Wame), of four of the six commissions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and of the World Cultural Council. .

Salinas was awarded the Henri Pittier Order in its first and second class, for his merits in the conservation of nature in Venezuela. The book Practical initiation to scientific research, of which he is co-author, is the official text in the specialty at the ULA School of Medicine and is used in other Latin American countries as a reference on the subject. In fact, this publication received the Golden Book award for being the best seller of the ULA during the two years that this award existed.