Two women have been summoned to render accounts before the Spanish justice for a possible case of medical negligence. This is an eight-year-old minor who died of peritonitis after going to the emergency room five times and that they simply treated him with urine tests and medicine for vomiting.
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The international news agency ‘EFE’ had access to the judicial ruling in which a titular magistrate charged a doctor from the hospital in Elda – a Spanish municipality located in Alicante – and another from a health center in Petrer – a municipality in southeastern Spain – for his alleged involvement in a death that is suspected to have been the result of malpractice on the part of health professionals.
According to the Spanish media ‘El Mundo’, the events took place almost two years ago, in October 2020. Aitor, the deceased 7-year-old boy, went with his grandmother -who at that time had his custody- to the emergency services five times for three days in a row after experiencing excruciating abdominal pain. Nevertheless, the only thing he received was medicine to control vomiting and some urine testsaccording to her grandmother in a video broadcast by her on social networks.
The minor’s mother assured that they did not do “neither an ultrasound nor a blood test”, as the staff alleged that they were in the midst of a health emergency due to the coronavirus, according to the Spanish media ’20minutes’.
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The report presented by a digestive pediatrics forensic doctor -carried out at the request of the judge handling the case- confirmed the version of the parent, stating that “no complementary examination was performeda” to those mentioned above, such as an abdominal ultrasound or a blood test.
In addition to the above, the document points out some gaps that were found in the hospital report of October 26, 2020. Apparently, some symptoms that denoted Aitor’s serious state of health were omitted or were erroneous. For example, “it is not specified that he had dark circles, which denoted dehydration”, according to ‘El Mundo’, as well as not including that the minor had folliculitis and obesity at the time of his death on October 28, 2020.
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Both doctors are scheduled for December 12, after the forensic expert revealed that they could have incurred medical negligence either because of “ignorance or laziness”.
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