Six years ago A 79-year-old woman underwent surgery to remove her gallbladder, but she died due to chronic degenerative conditions.according to a medical report, but the discovery of surgical scissors inside the body while it was in the crematorium raised a complaint of negligence that has not yet been resolved.
Considering the situation, the National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) issued a recommendation to ISSSTE for inadequate medical care that resulted in the death of a patient in Querétaro General Hospital.
The incident happened in August 2016 during the victim’s cremation, funeral directors claimed to have found scissors in the cremated body.for which they applied to the National Medical Arbitration Commission (Conamed), although representatives of ISSSTE argued that there was no medical malpractice and the case was closed as an “unresolved issue”.
The CNDH received a copy of the medical record, and it notes that there was no proper care that the victim needed as an elderly person, as she suffered from two conditions that involved surgical treatment, but the attending medical staff minimized this.
The national human rights body notes that 7 civil servants of the hospital made at least omissions in care.
“This Autonomous Organization was able to confirm that the treating medical staff, in their respective assessments, minimized the fact that the victim represented conditions of vulnerability as she was an elderly person with chronic degenerative diseases, features that made her deserving of pre-emption, priority and immediate, which when this did not happen, led to a deterioration in his state of health up to death.
However, prior to the filing of the family’s complaint with the National Medical Arbitration Commission, ISSSTE representatives “contended that there was no medical malpractice and the case was dismissed as a ‘pending case’,” the rights group said.
one more point The recommendation is to compensate the indirect victims of the act with “financial compensation in accordance with the law”, as well as psychological and thanatological assistance.
Source: La Opinion
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