The Canary Islands Health Service has been sentenced for taking more than six months to diagnose a Cancer terminal. Specifically, the deceased patient went to the Adeje health center, in Tenerife, on more than 40 occasions and they did not detect anything. In the sentence, handed down by the Administrative Litigation Court Number 3 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to which the SER has had access, the authentic ordeal suffered by the patient during his last months of life is recounted.
María Dolores, Juan Carlos’s partner, has recounted the hell their lives have turned into after a persistent back pain led him to go to the Adeje Health Center one morning.
He did it 41 times without undergoing diagnostic tests, such as a simple chest film that would have revealed what was discovered a year later, a gigantic spot on the lung, a stage four cancer, terminal that would end in a month with the life of Juan Carlos.
María Dolores Ríos, after the conviction of the Canary Health Service, also wanted to give her testimony in the SER, to go beyond what the sentence, such as the more than 15 kilos of weight loss of her husband or nail malformation were attributed by the doctor to stress and old age. Juan Carlos was 41 years old at the time. The judge has condemned the SCS for malpractice in this case and to pay 30,000 euros in compensation.
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