Showing posts with label NEGLIGENCE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NEGLIGENCE. Show all posts

Monday, 5 October 2009

La Línea doctor denounced for negligence

hospital_la_linea.jpg(Agencies) Seven doctors of the Servicio Andaluz de Salud (SAS), one from La Línea, have been reported for alleged negligence in the case of a woman who died of a cerebral hemorrage. The patient died after being diagnosed with stress five times in three days. According to her family's lawyer, Félix Muñoz Pedrosa, the woman first went to the La Línea Hospital on October 22 last year. She had been in the town to attend her father's funeral and told the staff at th hospital that she was feeling acute pain in the chest and back.
The doctors there told her she had been under a "stressful family situation" and sent her home to Sevilla, where her husband took her to the Virgen del Rocío Hospital because her "joints were absolutely rigid." She was given several tests there and was admitted on the 25th, "that is, four days after she was first  taken ill," according to the attorney.>