Death of an infant, an open investigation

Jouri Sayed, a ten-month-old girl from the village of Anout, in Chouf, could be another victim of the collapse of the health system. The girl’s father, Mazen Sayed, explained that Jouri died while trying to find a place for her in a pediatric intensive care unit. “No one responded to the pediatrician who tried for an hour and a half to find a place for her in a hospital while my daughter was dying,” he said. While the cause of death is unclear, the outgoing Minister of Health, Hamad Hassan, yesterday asked for the opening of an investigation to clarify the circumstances of this tragedy. On the instruction of the competent judicial authorities, the gendarmerie of Chehim, in Iqlim Kharroub, also opened an investigation. In the evening, the management of the central hospital in Mazboud, in Iqlim el-Kharroub (Chouf), specified that the girl was admitted to the emergency room on Saturday in critical condition. “She lacked oxygen and showed signs of septic shock,” said one in a press release. The necessary treatment was administered and a place in pediatric intensive care was managed. “However” contrary to the will and consent of the medical profession, we decided to transport her to another hospital, despite warnings of the dangerousness of such an approach, especially in the absence of an equipped means of transport. », We add in the text. The hospital specifies that “the girl was transferred in a private car”, after the parents had signed a document relieving the hospital of all responsibility. But she came back “a few minutes later”. “She presented a cardiac arrest”, explains the management of the hospital, noting that it was not long in passing in spite of the cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.

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Jouri Sayed, a ten-month-old girl from the village of Anout, in Chouf, could be another victim of the collapse of the health system. The girl’s father, Mazen Sayed, explained that Jouri died while trying to find a place for her in a pediatric intensive care unit. “No one responded to the pediatrician who …