This morning the charges were filed for manslaughter of a doctor and a doctor for acting negligently when taking care of Valentina, the 11-year-old girl who died of sepsis at the Neuquén polyclinic last year. Besides, there is another doctor who is also under investigation.
On March 22 of last year, 11-year-old Valentina Dos Santos, entered the clinic with fever and abdominal pain. She was attended by the doctor and the doctor, who requested a bone scan of the abdomen and they indicated analgesia, antipyretics, laxatives and micro enemas. In addition, they indicated that if the abdominal pain continued, he should return to outpatient clinics. The next day, the girl passed away.
This Thursday, charges were filed once morest the doctor and the doctor for act negligently in serving her. Legal assistant Pablo Jávega stated that both they acted negligently in evaluating the patient, by omit the performance of therapeutic actions to counteract the condition of acute surgical abdomen that he presented when attending the Natividad clinic, which it evolved into sepsis that caused his death.
According to the representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the actions of the doctors were “deficient” in the interpretation of the antecedents, clinical and radiological findings leading to an erroneous diagnosis and treatment». As stated, professionals postponed “specific measures that are decisive in a response favorable and achieve the restoration of the patient’s health, being able to have acted in a different way to reverse the condition she was suffering”.
The legal assistant maintained that both professionals “wrongly assumed a diagnosis presumptive of constipation, dismissing the existing radiological, clinical and history findings, whose delay in diagnosis and correct treatment triggered sepsis”.
The crime that he attributed to the doctor and the doctor was manslaughter, as perpetrators. The plaintiff lawyer joined the proposal and the guarantee judge who conducted the hearing endorsed the formulation of charges and established the investigation period at four months.
If there is also another doctor who is under investigation and they reported that will be charged when the Judicial Office sets the hearing to do it.
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