A five-month-old baby died recently at the Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital in Vigo. pneumococcal meningitis after a serious bacterial infection Caused by streptococcus pneumoniae, also known as pneumococcus. Little SMS’s death occurred on December 10, just 48 hours after she was hospitalized and “after she had been to the Pediatric Emergency Room in the previous days,” according to the family.
This type of bacteria is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in adults and second most common in children older than two years, but two doses with an age-appropriate vaccination schedule caused the death of a young boy with Vigo. The baby’s family stated that they went to the hospital on December 6 because the child had bleeding. “vomiting, fever and diarrhea” . When he got there, he was sent home after a physical examination, when he was reported to show no “neck stiffness or meningeal signs.” They returned to the ward the next day, where professionals observed the boy again and determined the evacuation due to “good general condition”as reflected in the reports.
The family reported that “that morning the boy began to have contractions and an ambulance came looking for him.” “He was taken to intensive care on the 8th and was diagnosed with acute meningoencephalitis, they did tests but they already told us it was so common that there was nothing we could do because there was brain death. The only thing keeping him alive was assisted breathing,” they tell this newspaper. family thinks thatthere were some omissions when last seen Emergency cases were sent home, as the boy could see that one eye and mouth were deformed. They tell their stories because they want “something like this to never happen again”.
Sergaz version
From Servizo Galego de Saúde (Sergas), the diagnosis made after the death of the baby by the specialists of Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital was announced as “pneumococcal meningitis with a lifeless evolution”. The health administration said it was “related to this”. a very aggressive bacteriumit causes sepsis, a very serious illness that can sometimes lead to fatal consequences, as in this case”.
Regarding the performance of Pediatric Emergency Service professionals, the following defense was made from the Vigo hospital care management: “They always acted right and according to established protocols. In this sense, Sergas assured that “in none of his two visits to the emergency room the baby presented signs or data that would raise suspicion of this disease in the examination.”
The Vigo Health Directorate expressed its deep sorrow for the death of the baby and conveyed its condolences to his parents and relatives. Likewise, they offered to be present “for any explanation or doubt they may have regarding the assistance provided to their son.”