Omega denounces the death of a patient in the corridors of the ER | Radio Galicia

The Omega union denounces that an 84-year-old person died in the emergency corridors of the Clinical Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, while waiting to be transferred to the critics unit. The management of the center, however, assured that the death of the patient was later certified.

In addition, they indicated that the man was treated for the first time in less than ten minutes from his arrival at the service, where he was classified as “not serious”. It was while he was waiting to be placed in a box for a second examination that his health deteriorated, which caused him to be transferred to the critical area, where his death was certified.

Fatima Nercellas, union spokesperson, and the professional who certified the death of the man, criticizes that the man was “parked” in the corridor for almost an hour, which contravenes labor regulations, and that he died in an environment his dignity and that of his relatives.

Nercelleas stated that “It is the chronicle of an announced death“He recalled that it is about the sixth person to die in the corridors of CHUS since 2011, a “depressing” situation, and that “they do not think about changing”. The union spokeswoman asserted that “the lord was dead on critics“, thus responding to the versions offered by the Hospital Management.

Advanced that they will go through criminal proceedings, as in the previous times. Although they have had little success to date, he is confident that the effects of public denunciation, and even that, six fatal outcomes later, justice interprets that there are political responsibilities behind what happened.

In this sense, he stressed that “the conclusions of all the complaints is that doctors have no responsibility, and that it is a malfunction of public services, where they have no competition “.

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