VALENCIA (EP). The doctor, publicist and presenter Bartolome Beltran (1949, Campanet, Mallorca) died this Saturday in Madrid at the age of 74 due to kidney failure, as reported The reason.
Acquaintance for having been the reference figure on television and radio in the 80s and 90s, Dr. Beltrán became popular for giving health advice through the screen, informing and bringing the public closer to medical advances. Currently he was the director of Prevention and Medical Services at Atresmedia.
The doctor “par excellence” of the small screen, he was a member of the Spanish Gynecological Society and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics and an Academician of the Royal Academies of Murcia and Valladolid.
Beltran He regularly participated in conferences and forums on dissemination, like the Associates of the Spanish Federation of Orthotists and Prosthetists (FEDOP), was the one who launched ‘Health is what matters’ on Antena 3 Radio and presented the program ‘What’s wrong with me, doctor?’ in La Sexta.
Also coordinated projects such as ‘Constantes y Vitales’an advisory committee of stroke specialists, who offered their experience on the disease led by the doctor.
Since 2020, he had his program on Onda Cero ‘In good hands’ (Sundays, from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.), in which Dr. Bartolomé Beltrán addressed the most important current health issues with specialists.
In his last program, in mid-January, he treated epilepsy with the doctor from the Complex Epilepsy Unit of the San Rafael University Hospital in Madrid, Dr. Jaime Parra. Beltrán was also a collaborator in The reasonwhere he wrote a column in the health supplement.
Throughout his career he has received various awardssuch as the Gold Medal of the Red Cross (1982), the World Health Organization Award (1988), the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs Award, the Ondas Award (1990) and the Golden Antenna of Communication .