An Albacete court has called to testify as investigated by a alleged reckless homicide to a doctor at the Quirón Santa Cristina hospital in the capital of Albacete, against whom a couple has filed a criminal complaint for the death of their 2-year-old daughter.
Little Jana died in January 2023 from a streptococcal toxic shock caused by a streptococcus pyogenes infection, and her parents maintain that the reason for death was the “complete abandonment of duties” by the doctor who first treated her in the emergency room, who did not perform any tests or examinations, and therefore Therefore, he did not give the treatment that could have saved the girl’s life.
As reported in the complaint, the little girl had a fever episode On January 10 at night it reached 40 degrees, so at dawn her mother went with her to the emergency room of the Quirón Santa Cristina hospital, where the accused doctor, without performing “any type of examination,” urged her to continue with the medication regimen they were giving him and, if he did not improve, go to his pediatrician on day 12.
Four cardiorespiratory arrests
During the morning of the 11th, Jana continued to have a high fever until she was taken again to the emergency room of the same center at 3:00 p.m., and from there she was transferred to the General Hospital of Albacete by ambulance, where after seven in the afternoon she was referred to pediatric ICU and was diagnosed with Streptococcus pyogenes infection. In the ICU, the girl suffered up to four cardiorespiratory arrests, the last of which ended her life at 6:40 a.m. on January 12.
The legal representation of Jana’s parents has argued that, contrary to what the doctor reflected in his report, He did not perform any examination or test on the girl.despite the fact that she vomited, had a high fever and “could not stand”, and highlighted that the little girl and her mother spent only 11 minutes in the emergency room, from 5:41 a.m. to 5:52 a.m. They have added that “neither her medical history was consulted, nor any test was performed” to detect the infection and provide the necessary antibiotics, a conduct that, “due to negligence, caused the death of the minor.”
Likewise, the letter states that the accused doctor himself had signed an article in 2018 about infection by this type of bacteria, and that a month before Jana’s death the Spanish Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases issued an alert about serious infections by streptococcus pyogenes that recommended “maintaining high alertness and suspicion regarding the possibility of serious cases of infection.”
“A quick test should have been done”
He also cites the protocol manual of the Ministry of Health, in which in the face of high temperature and vomiting it is advisable to extract blood cultures, or at least “a rapid streptococcus test should have been done, which would have been enough to determine that the cause of the disease was bacterial” and would have been treated with antibiotics.
Tamara, Jana’s mother, has described “I despise” the doctor’s attitude that morning: “He asked me if I saw my daughter feeling bad at 38.8 degrees, and I explained to him that she was bad, that she was not like she was on other occasions when she had also had a high fever.” The woman has assured that she admires doctors because “they have a very complicated job”, and added: “I admire and respect even those who have mistakes because we all make mistakes; But to make a mistake you have to do something, and this doctor didn’t do anything… He didn’t do anything for my daughter.”
Tamara explained that she and her husband, Juan Antonio, decided to opt for criminal proceedings despite the difficulties they have encountered in doing so, as she stated that it was not “medical negligence as such, it was not a failure; for us it is an omission.” because he did not fulfill his duty; it is a complete neglect of duties. He stated: “I am not looking for justice, because justice is not going to give me my daughter back.; nor revenge, because I am not vengeful (…) What I am looking for is that this person, who does not love his profession, cannot be with children, cannot be treating children… I do not want this to happen to him again. to any more children.
A rally on the day of the declaration
Tamara has recognized the importance of the step that the doctor has been called to testify for reckless homicide, and has advanced that They will hold a rally on the day of the declaration at the door of the courts so that “it is known what happened to Jana.” The Investigative Court number 2 of Albacete will take a statement from the doctor, as an investigator, next Wednesday, the 13th at 11:00 am.
As confirmed by the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha, the investigation is in an initial phase and the preliminary proceedings are opened to “investigate the possible commission of the crime of reckless homicide.” The lawyer representing the family, Mariano López, has explained that the statement will also serve to ratify the medical expert whose report they presented with the complaint on January 8.
The lawyer representing the family, Mariano López, has explained that the statement will also serve to ratify the medical expert whose report They presented the complaint on January 8. For their part, the Quirón Santa Cristina hospital center has indicated that, by protocol, they do not make statements on matters that are in judicial proceedings.
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