The doctor and popularizer Bartolomé Beltrán dies at the age of 74 due to kidney failure

Kidney failure has been the cause of the death of Bartolomé Beltrán, who died this Saturday at the Ruber Clinic in Madrid. “He was fine but a few days ago he had a problem and it got complicated,” explains a friend of the doctor. Born in Campanet (Mallorca), in November 1949, he was very popular for his interventions in the media. Gynecologist and presenter, he graduated in Medicine from the University of Valladolid (1967-1973) and became a specialist in toco-gynecology from the Faculty of Medicine (Complutense University of Madrid) in 1978. He was a member of the Department of Gynecology at the Hospital Central de la Defensa Gómez Ulla in Madrid and a member of the Spanish Gynecological Society and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). He was also head of the Social Security surgical team in Gynecology.

Dr. Beltrán was also part of the founding team of Antena 3 TV when the private channels began to broadcast and launched formats such as “Viva la salud”, “Viva la vida” or “In good hands”. In addition, he was also the director of Prevention and Medical Services at Atresmedia. His last job on television was “What's wrong with me, doctor? program that he directed and presented on Sundays on La Sexta where he clarified viewers' doubts.

Sent by the government of Adolfo Suárez

It was sent by the government of Adolfo Suarez to the installation of a Field Hospital in Estelí (Nicaragua) when democracy was implemented in that country after the overthrow of Somoza. For more than 40 years, he collaborated in press, radio and television programs on health and bio-medical sciences in the pioneering spaces Health is what matters on Antena 3 Radio (1982) on Cadena SER (1989 ) and on Onda Cero since 2002, with the space Health on Onda Cero, which began to be called In good hands since 2006. Since then it has been broadcast on Onda Cero on Saturday afternoons.

He was an editorial writer and columnist for both general media and health publications, health weeklies and pharmaceutical magazines. She worked at the newspaper YA and coordinated the magazine's science and medicine pages. Time and other publications of Grupo Zeta and from 1985 to 1988 he prepared and created the health section of the weekly Época. He also edited the health policy chronicle The Keys for Noticias médicas and collaborated with the rest of the Edimsa Group's publications such as Consulta and Tiempos médicos. And he collaborated with the Balearic newspaper Última Hora (Palma de Mallorca) and the magazines Readings o Grow up happy.