Medical Malpractice 32 of the IMSS clinic causes of HIV-positive patient death
Leonardo Bastida Aguilar, NotieSe
Mexico City, November 9, 2010.
http://www.notiese.org/notiese.php?ctn_id=4444
After the physician Febronio Alberto Juárez refused to meet Edgar Doryan HIV in the area of \u200b\u200bHospital General Area (HGZ) No. 32, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), because "he had quoted, he died four days later of severe pneumonia.
On 31 October, Doryan HGZ Edgar went to 32 because it took more than 10 sleepless nights due to induced tachycardia the 39 degree heat that invaded her body. Arriving with Febronio Juarez, head of HIV at the institution, he refused to serve you and referred to the Family Medicine Unit No. 46, where he was diagnosed with candidiasis and prescribed "chicken soup" and fluconazole.
The drug was not available at the clinic so Doryan parents had to buy at a pharmacy. Doryan
Edgar, 26 years old, was diagnosed HIV positive in May this year. In late September, attended the HGZ 32 to pursue their studies of viral load and CD4 lymphocytes to see if it was time to start antiretroviral therapy. After two weeks back for results. Not succeeded because the staff in the area of \u200b\u200bChemistry "was on vacation." That would have assured him that on 16 November.
the night of November 2, Doryan parents received help from the activist Silvia Carmona, who suggested they go immediately to the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER). Immediately accepted because their financial resources prevented them from sending their child to a private medical institution.
X-rays taken by doctors showed the right lung of Edgar Doryan with huge spaces, unequivocal sign that the body is severely damaged because of infection. The INER
, specialists diagnosed with "multi-focal pneumonia," a disease that ultimately caused his death on Thursday, November 4, as settled in the death certificate issued by the Ministry of Health.
Paradoxically, the same day, Gerardo del Carmen Resendiz, head of emergency department HGZ 32, Doryan gave him a disability for five days. Silvia Carmona, Doryan had not died, if that document had been issued from the same Oct. 31, when submitted to seek medical help first.
activist for the rights of people with HIV recalled that the Official Statement Mexicana 010, relating to HIV / AIDS, is explicit in stating that patients should be immediately attended to by specialists because of complications arising from an ineffective immune system.
This is not the first time that the doctor Alberto Febronio, denied care or medicine to clinic patients 32. Last April was reported by Felipe Sanchez for not authorize the release of raltegravir and darunavir, drugs needed to help control HIV / AIDS.
http://www.notiese.org/imprimir_popup.php?ctn_id=3833 Finally, Angelica, mother of Doryan warned that attend the National Human Rights Commission to report medical malpractice which was the subject of his son in health services.
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