The process of the three-year-old girl who died in the Écija hospital in September 2022 a few days after undergoing tonsil surgery continues. The little girl's father, Manuela, has given a statement to Vamos a ver after the prosecutor in the case has summoned three health workers to give statements.
Three health workers from the health center, in addition to the doctor who already declared herself under investigation a few weeks ago, must appear before the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 1 of the town, as confirmed by Fernando Osuna, legal representative of Manuela's family. .
The lawyer has also requested the Institute of Legal Medicine that the forensic experts prepare an expert report "in order to determine the causal relationship between the surgery and the subsequent health care" received by the little girl in the days before her death. .
Joaquín Fernández, Manuela's father, gave a statement to Let's See as a result of this new development in the process, asking that all those who participated in his daughter's death be tried as soon as possible. "We want all the people who told us it was okay to be prosecuted."
All of these assessments will establish whether the performance as healthcare professionals was "in accordance or not" with medical praxis. All of this will serve for the judge's final decision, which investigates whether there was possible negligence in the death of Manuela, who died at the Écija High Resolution Hospital.
As detailed in the clinical report, Manuela would have died from "hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy" due to serious bleeding resulting from the surgery she underwent on September 19, 2022.
The operation was performed without prior blood analysis and without the corresponding review before discharge; in addition to not having entered the postoperative medication data into the minor's health card.
One day later, on September 20 at 6:21 a.m., the girl returned to the Hospital with her parents as an emergency. The little girl was not in good condition, and she could not take oral medication. She was discharged just 20 minutes later.
"If they had seen her for half an hour they would have realized that that girl was not well. They would not have taken us for crazy," Joaquín laments. "What they should have done was leave my daughter inside and observe her."
Three days later, they returned. Manuela, Osuna reports, "did not speak, had a fever, was pale and could not swallow." She entered the emergency room at 3:56 p.m. and was discharged less than an hour later. "My wife comes in at four and at four-thirty she discharged us," laments Joaquín, incredulous.
On September 24, at 5:15 a.m., the minor returned to the hospital, unconscious, after having suffered serious bleeding at home. "My daughter didn't come out well after the operation, she couldn't speak. She was lying down all day and was unconscious. They told us it was normal and they sent us home. It got worse and they took us for crazy again," she insists.
The little girl's artery burst at home, arriving at the hospital with cardiorespiratory arrest, as a result of blood loss.
The minor's father explains that he sees "many failures from the beginning to the end" in this entire process. "It's very clear to me, now that a judge sees it," he says.
