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ARCHIVED - Murcian health service denounced after death of octogenarian who waited seven hours for an ambulance
The family is claiming compensation of 308,650 euros
The Patient Ombudsman is taking the Murcian regional Health Service to court for the death, in April 2020, of Aurelia Marín Ramón, an octogenarian who spent 7 hours waiting for an ambulance after suffering respiratory failure.
According to the lawsuit, Aurelia’s death was the result of ‘medical malpractice in terms of the assistance received.’
The incident occurred at the beginning of the confinement period when the coronavirus pandemic first began to gain ground.
On April 26 2020, Aurelia was unable to get out of bed, so one of her 10 children, who still lived with her, called for an ambulance, explaining the medical history of her mother, who suffered from heart problems and had undergone heart surgery. The call was made at 10:00 a.m. and the first ambulance arrived two hours later, the medic on board determining that she should be transferred to the hospital, located just 2 kilometres from her home. A different transport vehicle would be sent to collect her.
The hours passed and two more ambulances arrived, but lacked the necessary means to carry out the transfer and she remained at home.
In total, it took seven hours and 19 minutes before she was finally carried into the La Arrixaca hospital in Murcia, although she was already in a very bad condition, with heart and respiratory failure, and died a few minutes after entering the hospital.
The family is claiming compensation of around 300,000 euros in damages, citing ‘defective’ medical care for the time she was waiting for the hospital transfer, and a causal relationship between Aurelia's death and the ‘abnormal’ functioning of the public service.
Ignacio Martínez, lawyer for the Patient Ombudsman, says the concern of the family is to ensure that a similar incident will not occur in the future.
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