19-Year-Old Seeks €935K Compensation from Health Ministry, Claims Covid Vaccine Injury

The 19-year-old, from Écija (Seville), demands compensation of 935,740 euros from the Ministry of Health “for injuries caused by the Covid vaccine,” as reported today the legal portal Confilegal.

The lawyer defending this young man affirms that “he was a healthy and sporty young man. Now he is in a wheelchair and needs the help of a third person, at least for two hours a day, to clean himself and other activities of daily life ». He points out that this irreversible damage was caused “as a consequence of the Covid vaccine, administered last December.” The young man has been recognized as 84% ​​disabled.

«After being vaccinated with the second dose of the Covid vaccine on September 23, 2021 -I got the first one at the beginning of that month-, I began to suffer paresthesias and small sensory alterations with weakness in both arms that I did not give importance to. since I attributed them to the side effects of the vaccine itself, ”explains the plaintiff in the letter. In December of that year he began to suffer motor disorders in his legs and back pain that worsened. until it was completely impossible for him to walk and that they forced him to go to the ER at the Hospital de Alta Resolución in Écija on the 13th of that month.

The next day, He was admitted to the Neurology floor of the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville where he remained until January 5, 2022, where after the corresponding treatment and diagnostic study he was transferred to the Spinal Cord Injury Unit. In that unit he was admitted with the diagnosis of “incomplete spinal cord injury C6 right/C5 left level of medical cause probably related to inflammatory vs vascular etiology (less likely, although moderate response to treatment, diffusion restriction with little inflammatory and CSF expression, frequently cryptogenic)”.

He On August 11, 2022, he was diagnosed with transverse myelitis in temporal relation to the second dose of the Covid vaccine., according to the doctor’s report. He was released from the spinal cord injury service on August 26.

The Public Health System does not cover the cost of your rehabilitation treatment

When the discharge is issued by the Neurology Service, the Public Health System does not cover the cost of rehabilitation treatment. For the past 9 months, he has been going to the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center in Seville three times a week, so he has to travel from the town of Écija, where he lives, some 90 kilometers away, with the consequent cost of fuel.

The claim to the Ministry of Health reflects that due to the rehabilitative treatment To date, he has paid 6,075 euros, at a rate of 675 euros per month from September 2022 to May 2023, to which is added the cost of the fuel for the car in which his mother transports him, which amounts to 3,693 euros.

The written claim for damages to the Ministry of Health was presented yesterday, May 31, and the documentation reflects, according to Confilegal, that last March he went to the Neurology Service of the Hospital, referred by his family doctor, to carry out the corresponding follow-up. In the clinical report issued by Dr. It is expressly stated how the myelitis (inflammation of the spinal cord) that he suffers has a direct causal relationship with the Covid vaccine and is established as a “current disease”.

The report expressly states that the young patient suffers from «vaccinal myelitis (Pfizer CV-19) with tetraappendiceal involvement with mild respiratory distress».

According to the report, to which Confilegal has had access, it is indicated that the young man is capable of taking three steps, has motor clumsiness in his hands, as well as sensory alteration from the middle of the left thorax downwards, sphincter alteration and visual alteration.

The lettering highlights that the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court (TS) ruled in a judgment of October 9, 2012 (cassation appeal 6878/2010) that the appellant did not have the legal duty to bear the accredited damage that he suffered as a consequence of the act of flu vaccination in 2002 and which led to his being affected by Guillain-Barré syndrome, that would cause very serious alterations in the nervous system and a degree of disability of 85%.