Emilio Núñez, 65 years old, He was shaking in his home on Juan Llorens Street in València. While one of his children approached the Health Help Point opposite to ask for emergency help, his other son had a heart-respiratory attack by calling 112 Emergency. The aid worker at the center in question refused to go out to help the patient in question, even though he was only 50 meters away from the ward, and the man died due to cardiorespiratory failure.
Now optional He faces a one and a half year disqualification and a fine of 4,500 euros He was charged with the crime of neglecting his duty to provide assistance due to the lack of health care. It is the punishment that demands it The Ministry of Finance in the trial that started this morning before the popular jury. As a matter of legal liability, it demands that the doctor pay compensation of 90,000 euros to the deceased’s widow and three children.
The defendant, a 36-year-old Paraguayan national, claims that he cannot quit his job and limits himself only to complying with the established rules. “I was waiting for TETRA to let me know if they wanted me” The doctor, who was asleep when he was called by the nurse, insisted repeatedly that there was a person at the door informing him that his relative was dying.
The doctor just asked if he had called 112 and when he received a positive answer, he continued to rest. He therefore accepts that he did not make any other arrangements to check what the service in question was like, the condition of the patient or whether emergency medical services were on the way. And today, when questioned by the prosecutor in court, he admitted: I would act the same way again.
It should be noted that the defendant, who was on duty for outside help, argued that he would have gone out to help himself only if he had been at the same door. “Why should I treat a patient 50 meters away rather than a patient 500 meters away?” he argued.
The doctor was sleeping in the rest area and had no warning that morning.
The events took place in the region Early morning hours of September 22, 2019 while the defendant was working as an external assistance doctor at the Juan Llorens health centre. The doctor was sleeping I am waiting to receive notification from CICU. His defense claimed that the defendant was waiting to receive notification from the NICU and that he acted with the belief that this person had already been helped and that he could not quit his job.
The prosecutor emphasized that the defendant had a legal obligation to help the patient as a doctor on duty, and that this was possible because it was proven that he was not in the ward that morning. In fact, he was sleeping when the nurse told him about the situation of this dying person. “He only had to cross the street and completely ignored the patient.”. Likewise, regarding the fact supported by the defense that this person, who had heart surgery ten days ago, would have died if the doctor had gone to the ward, the Prosecutor’s Office stated that if he had saved him, he could have helped and accompanied him in the last moments of his life, as per his duty as a doctor.
The doctor’s defense claims the following: career path His sponsorship is impeccable and he has always been positively evaluated by colleagues and patients. In a comprehensive defense briefing, he detailed the workings of the Emergency Information and Coordination Center (CICU) and laid blame on the management itself for the inadequate assistance provided to the deceased that morning.