Investigation launched against two doctors Court of First Instance and Instruction No. 3 of Elda charged with reckless manslaughter for the care given to little Aitor, 8-year-old boy dies in Petrer After going to the emergency room five times, four days apart, in 2020 due to severe stomach pain due to peritonitis, yesterday in court they denied childcare malpractice and argued that their actions were correct.
Two doctors, one from the Elda General Hospital Emergency Department and the other from a health center in Petrer, refused to answer the doctors’ questions. lawyer Raquel Sánchez NavarroThey only answered questions from their lawyers and the investigating judge, if not all questions, who conduct private prosecution on behalf of Marta Gonzálvez Alba, Aitor’s mother.
Second year of MIR
According to sources close to the incident, Elda General Hospital emergency doctor In October 2020, the minor, who is in his second year of MIR, is in court in good health, and “I have no pain”something contradicts the mother’s complaint.
This researcher, minor I didn’t have a fever either. and he said he didn’t do any additional testing because he saw it was fine as the same sources describe. In addition, since no pathology was observed in the child, he did not consider it necessary to consult another doctor in the center.
Petrer health center doctor, who did not answer the questions of the special prosecutor’s office, explained that Aitor’s mother, who was actually his grandmother, had custody and had been raising him since he was a baby. The fifth child, however, went at half past five in the morning due to the youngest’s illness and told him to take her to the State Hospital. However, according to his version, The mother asked me to dip something to ease the child’s pain. and he said he wouldn’t go to the hospital for the third time. Everything these excesses were not registered in the health center and the doctor argued in court that the reason was: because there were so many problems from work that night
child assistance
The accusation of the two doctors caring for the child emerged as a result of the expert report’s conclusion that there was negligence in the child’s care.
In the case of the General Hospital Emergency doctor, the following statements were included: the mistake was to discharge the child without additional testsIf the doctor in the health center if you have been given a medicine not recommended for children and that it could hasten the peritonitis that caused his death.
Aitor passed away after fainting in the bathroom of his home in the early morning of October 28, 2020. Four days ago, he had suffered from vomiting and severe stomach pain. The different doctors who looked after him gave him only fluids, analgesics and a treatment to stop his vomiting, but did not do an ultrasound or analysis to try to find the source of the vomiting. abdominal pain that does not allow to sleep. According to the mother’s complaint, a urine test was done just to rule out the possibility that she might have diabetes.