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Lebanon - Previously healthy girl, 8, died of sepsis or possible hospital acquired virus in a week in Sidon - September 28, 2016

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  • Lebanon - Previously healthy girl, 8, died of sepsis or possible hospital acquired virus in a week in Sidon - September 28, 2016



    28Girl died Tia Reno (8 years) in Ghassan Hammoud University Hospital in Sidon, for reasons that remain opaque until the clock.



    After residents staged a sit-in front of the hospital the girl accused the physician of committing a medical error, and demanding an investigation into the case, the hospital administration has issued the following statement:

    "The hospital management and medical staff and nursing extends heartfelt condolences to the people of each of the deceased child Tia Reno and all of her family and friends as we understand their pain and their grief.

    The little girl brought the sick Tia Reno to Hammoud University Hospital on the evening of 21/09/2016 and is suffering from an acute inflammation of the tonsils, and had received in previous days antibiotic treatment outside the hospital.

    But two days after the treatment of the said given the marked deterioration in her condition was accompanied by her parents to children accredited to the family doctor. It has been diagnosed as suffering from heat and pus within the tonsils and was given a prescription necessary treatment, but her condition did not improve. The doctor asked parents to go immediately to the hospital emergency for fear that inflammation may be moved to the blood and become the need for antibiotic treatment serum (IV). After two hours of this little girl brought the patient to the emergency department, where she underwent the necessary tests and was admitted to the hospital under the supervision of a team of pediatricians and bacterial diseases and given treatments of antibiotics and others. But they did not respond to treatment as expected, which transferred to the intensive care unit called for careful monitoring and receive the necessary treatment for her condition.

    The patient was in critical condition as a result of severe infections that led to a drop in blood pressure (Severe Refractory Septic Shock). It has conducted its first and essential food and received full treatment. As the follow-up has full comprehensive laboratory testing to keep pace with the evolution of the situation and monitor their interaction with treatment. The child was under inspection by an integrated team of doctors and consultants specialized bacterial diseases and intensive care, pediatrics, heart, lung, kidney and nerves.

    After hours on continuous therapy, the girl did not respond to all this degradation of their health status and put on artificial respiratory system due to the faltering respiratory apparatus (Acute Respiratory Distress and Failure). In spite of all these measures for the treatment did not respond Vhsal stop in the heart pattern on 23/09/2016 am has presented an resuscitation (CPR), but did not Tsjb. Declared time of death 10:45.

    The hospital administration estimated the medical staff's efforts and laboratory and nursing and the Ministry of Health, compassion and cooperation to save the girl child and interact with the parents in this difficult situation administration asserts that the medical care and attention, analysis and treatment has all the fullest according to medical foundations universally adopted.What hospital are still awaiting the results of further tests in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to clarify the subject. This is our duty towards the family and the community. "



    Meanwhile, the victim's father told the "ambassador" of the Lebanese "The hospital told us that the heart of Tia stopped working suddenly it did not respond to the treatment .. How could this happen? How the heart of a child stops beating without any apparent reason?", Stressing that " An error occurred inside the hospital. "



    And it lists the parent voracious details of what happened: "Tia suffered from a rise in temperature so we address them with antibiotics at home, but after the condition worsened turned to the doctor x. A., Who confirmed she was suffering from an acute inflammation of the tonsils, and given the impact of a syringe fell on impact pressure. but after a time, I began to float on her body, the effects of heat and swelling. after the condition worsened so much we have delivered to the Hammoud hospital in Sidon, where he gave her a medical staff of treatment, but it did not improve, but increased her condition worsened and moved inflammation to the lungs, liver, barely hours until she died. "



    In this context, he confirmed close to the child that the doctor provided the victim injection valid for those who weigh more than 40 kilograms, while Tia weight does not exceed 30, noting that it is possible to be a little girl had picked up a virus moving within the corridors of the hospital, adding to her condition worse.



    But Health Minister Wael Abou Faour, he decided to open an investigation of the incident immediately, asking to call the hospital administration and the people of Tia to the ministry

    http://www.tayyar.org/News/Health/10...AF%D8%AB%D8%A9



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