Under the title “She was playing with me in the morning and I brought her back as a dead body”…Details of what happened with my 7-month-old daughter, Rasha Shamas!
It is painful to die when someone knocks on someone’s door, it is inevitable, but sudden death is like an electric thunderbolt that breaks the heart. Two days ago, the story of the 7-month-old girl, Rasha Shamas, spread, following her mother wrote details of what had happened to her a week ago, “she was playing with me in the morning and a dead body came back.”
It is hard to believe, this child, who was in good health and did not complain regarding anything, was absent from this life. The reasons and explanation for the fact of death differ, while the girl’s mother confirms to “Al-Nahar” that “the delay in finding a bed in the intensive care for children led to her death,” the pediatrician at Hermel Hospital denies that this was the cause of her death, noting that “the girl arrived as dead.” To the hospital”.
So what happened? And what is the reality of hospitalization in the region, especially since the migration of doctors and nurses imposes a dangerous reality in reaching a stage where we will not find a doctor to treat even emergency cases.
Back to the beginning of the story, where the girl’s mother, Fatima Nasir al-Din, told “Al-Nahar” the details of her daughter’s last hours, saying, “She was playing and did not complain regarding anything, I fed her as usual (breastfeed her) and then she slept. It was regarding 9 am when she finished her food and then went to the “I used to check on her every now and then and she didn’t see anything. But at twelve o’clock, only ten minutes, and while I was checking her, her eyes were up, pale and without a pulse. We went with her to Al-Batool Hospital, where the oxygen rate returned to normal.”
According to the mother, “If a bed was secured in the intensive care unit in the district hospital, my child would not have died. The emergency doctor at Dar Al-Amal University Hospital assured us that the child was dead, and we were late for her because she was supposed to have been in care 4 hours ago.”
It is not easy for her mother to deal with this loss, her tears betray her from time to time “following the calls and “tip” hands succeeded in securing a bed in the Dar Al-Amal Hospital, but it was too late. The child is dead and nothing can be done. In this country we have to resort to Mediation and employing acquaintances so that we can govern our children, especially since we are at the expense of the army, as hospitals have evaded receiving us.”
According to her mother, “The lack of intensive care for children and the lack of sufficient beds takes the lives of many children. I used to hear stories of children who died as a result of the absence of a special richness room, today I tasted the cup of this loss. I did not imagine that I would live the same tragedy, today my child died and I cannot Nobody can make up for this loss.
The family turns to the judiciary to ascertain the cause of death, as indicated by the mother, while medicine has a scientific explanation away from emotion.
It was necessary to listen to the medical opinion and research the medical causes responsible for death. We contacted the pediatrician at Hermel Hospital, Dr. Imad Mokh, who confirmed to An-Nahar that “the death was caused by suffocation due to milk. However, with the help of 3 other doctors I tried to resuscitate her, and the father was in the room with us. We succeeded in CPR following 28 minutes of CPR, but unfortunately her brain was off.”
Despite the medical efforts that were made, the child’s condition was difficult and the hope of her survival was slim. However, as Mokh explains, “We did not hesitate to try and do the impossible to save her. During resuscitation, milk came out of the lung, which suggests the hypothesis of suffocation with milk during sleep. During attempts to secure a bed for her in the intensive care unit in another hospital, the parents (grandfather and father) declared that the hope of her survival It’s small, but do whatever it takes.”
Brakh stresses that this condition “occurs in young children as a result of suffocation with milk during their sleep.” But the doctor has another cry, as he asserts that “the problem is not in the presence of intensive care rooms for children, but rather in the absence of medical and nursing teams specialized in caring for children. What I am afraid of is that we will reach a stage where even emergency cases will not find anyone to treat them. Doctors and nurses face many difficulties, including the difficult economic reality.” And the low medical examination (60-100 thousand), in addition to the physical, moral and verbal abuse and violations that they are exposed to on a daily basis during their work.
