A woman reported on Friday that her two and a half month old daughter died in the San Lorenzo Maternal and Child Hospital of Los Mina, due to alleged negligence of the medical staffwho, he claimed, turned off a vital signs monitor because “the noise bothered“.
Jessica Ortiz She stated that her daughter had been admitted since November 20 and remained in the hospital for nine days. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Ortiz assured that, after being transferred out of intensive care, the staff stopped greeting her. proper care: “They took her out of the ICU and they no longer gave her the same importance, as if the girl had been won. Last night I they turned off the machine and my daughter died,” he declared through tears.
“The doctor “She said the noise didn’t let her sleep.”
The mother reported that a doctor of the medical center would have turned off the device that monitored vital functions of the baby.
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“She told me: ‘How do you put up with that noise? I can’t stand that noise, I’m going to turn it off. And today, when he found out that the girl had died, he came to ask me for forgiveness,” Ortiz said.
The baby had symptoms that, according to the mother, were ignored.
Ortiz stated that the girl I didn’t urinate, I didn’t eat and did abnormal stoolswhile denouncing that the medical staff He communicated “secretly”, without offering clear explanations about the diagnosis.
“She had feverit was bad, and they didn’t get on top of it. My daughter I didn’t eatI didn’t pee, just dry mucus. “I didn’t know anything because they talked to each other, never to me,” he said.
The mother also assured that the deputy director The center would have ordered the girl to be moved quickly from the room where she was, but they still left her in an area without air conditioning appropriate and without constant supervision.
Death
According to what he said, the baby suffered a respiratory arrest the night before and yet the staff did not act with the necessary urgency.
“When I went to get help, she was already dead. The doctor that turned off the monitor He said to me: ‘Forgive me’said Ortiz.
They ask for investigation
Relatives accompanying the mother ask that the Ministry of Public Health and the hospital management initiate a immediate investigation to determine whether there was professional negligence and why essential equipment was turned off to monitor a delicate patient.
The Communications Directorate of the Hospital reported that the director of the center, along with other authorities, is following up to clarify this case and offer an official version of what happened.
Free Diary tried to contact the director of the National Health Service (SNS), Dr. Mario Lama, but at the time of going to press no response was received regarding the event.
