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SSJ must compensate for damages for death of child
The medical malpractice determined CEDHJ Hospital Cocula. Little child died without treatment against influenza.
Thu, 03/03 / 2011 - 17:34
Guadalajara .- The Human Rights Commission Jalisco (CEDHJ) recommended to the Ministry of Health Jalisco (SSJ) compensate for damages for the death of a child who was misdiagnosed in Cocula Regional Hospital and died receiving the wrong treatment suffered: influenza A-H1N1.
The agency determined that the child's death resulted from medical malpractice and misdiagnosis, so today issued its recommendation 7 / 2011, which asks the Health Secretary Alfonso Petersen "repair the damage that caused the performance of public servants irregular. "
"This was confirmed in the survey issued by the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences, at the request of the agency, which has incurred the doctors medical malpractice liability," said CEDHJ President Felipe de Jesus Alvarez Cibrian.
At a press conference the Ombudsman reported that the July 18, 2009 a child was diagnosed with pneumonia in hospital Cocula. The symptoms worsened and four days later was transferred to the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara, where he took medical samples that were positive for influenza virus A-H1N1. The child died.
Although the then prevailing influenza pandemic and that the child's symptoms were rated as alarming, Francisco Rodr?guez Lara's doctor and the medical resident Cocula Hospital, Javier Gil Medina, did not consider this infection and instructed to take samples, said .
The resident Saul Ernesto Rosas Bernal, continued with treatment for pneumonia, despite the deteriorating health of the child "which delayed shipment to a hospital for higher skills. For this conduct violated the three doctors the right to health protection of the child. Alvarez asked Cibrian brothers, allowing the administrative process.
This is the third recommendation that medical malpractice is turned against the SSJ staff in just three months. Last December the recommendation 25/2010 issued by the misdiagnosis of dengue and recommendation 32 / 2010 by poor attention to a man with a blow to the head. In all three cases the victims died.
Maricarmen Rello
Spanish to English translation
SSJ must compensate for damages for death of child
The medical malpractice determined CEDHJ Hospital Cocula. Little child died without treatment against influenza.
Thu, 03/03 / 2011 - 17:34
Guadalajara .- The Human Rights Commission Jalisco (CEDHJ) recommended to the Ministry of Health Jalisco (SSJ) compensate for damages for the death of a child who was misdiagnosed in Cocula Regional Hospital and died receiving the wrong treatment suffered: influenza A-H1N1.
The agency determined that the child's death resulted from medical malpractice and misdiagnosis, so today issued its recommendation 7 / 2011, which asks the Health Secretary Alfonso Petersen "repair the damage that caused the performance of public servants irregular. "
"This was confirmed in the survey issued by the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences, at the request of the agency, which has incurred the doctors medical malpractice liability," said CEDHJ President Felipe de Jesus Alvarez Cibrian.
At a press conference the Ombudsman reported that the July 18, 2009 a child was diagnosed with pneumonia in hospital Cocula. The symptoms worsened and four days later was transferred to the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara, where he took medical samples that were positive for influenza virus A-H1N1. The child died.
Although the then prevailing influenza pandemic and that the child's symptoms were rated as alarming, Francisco Rodr?guez Lara's doctor and the medical resident Cocula Hospital, Javier Gil Medina, did not consider this infection and instructed to take samples, said .
The resident Saul Ernesto Rosas Bernal, continued with treatment for pneumonia, despite the deteriorating health of the child "which delayed shipment to a hospital for higher skills. For this conduct violated the three doctors the right to health protection of the child. Alvarez asked Cibrian brothers, allowing the administrative process.
This is the third recommendation that medical malpractice is turned against the SSJ staff in just three months. Last December the recommendation 25/2010 issued by the misdiagnosis of dengue and recommendation 32 / 2010 by poor attention to a man with a blow to the head. In all three cases the victims died.
Maricarmen Rello
a child died in a regional hospital in Cocula found the Human Rights Commission and gave the recommendation number seven in the year to the Ministry of Health.