According to the president of the Oaxaca Medical Arbitration Commission, they should have acted quickly and not caused a delay in care.
The Oaxaca Medical Arbitration Commission ruled that there was medical negligence and omission in the case of delayed care for the three minors who were bitten by bats in the indigenous community of Palo de Lima belonging to San Lorenzo Texmelucan, two of them died.
The president of the organization, Alberto Vásquez Sangerman, reported that after reviewing the evidence and scientific evidence, in addition to listening to the parents of the victims, it was determined to apply a sanction to the Oaxaca Ministry of Health for the case, ordering the payment of compensation and repair of damage.
In addition to applying actions to avoid the repetition of the events, instructing the immediate equipment, provision of medicines and assignment of doctors and nurses to the rural clinic where the deceased minors were not treated in the first instance.
According to the resolution issued by the agency, the procedures and protocols followed by the doctors belonging to the Ministry of Health (SSO) in the case, as was the first instance care, was delayed, which caused the condition to be complicated, and generated the death of two of the children bitten by bats.
According to Vásquez Sangerman, from the first moment that minors infected with wild rabies were referred by their families to those responsible for the clinics and hospitals in their region, they should have acted quickly and not caused a delay in care due to part of the doctors who evaluated them.
The attack on the three minors was reported at their home on December 1, 2022, and despite the request of the parents, who went to the rural clinic, and two regional hospitals, it was not until December 21 that they were admitted urgently in to the general hospital in Oaxaca City, where their condition was already critical, and two of the children died.
The Medical Arbitration Commission announced that once the resolution has been issued verifying that there was medical negligence, it is now up to the Prosecutor’s Office to proceed through criminal proceedings against the doctors and nurses who allegedly denied adequate medical care to minors and they delayed their immediate hospitalization.
In the investigation folder of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, the crime of guilty of homicide is classified as a crime against the doctors responsible for the death of children bitten by bats, while by administrative means a sanction is contemplated for those involved up to 14 years of disqualification from holding public office.
Source: Milenio
