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Date Published: 16/06/2021
ARCHIVED - Three doctors investigated for medical neglect at care home in Madrid during Covid
Doctors failed to detect a respiratory infection caused by Covid and signs of dehydration in an elderly man who later died
A disciplinary process has been instigated against three doctors in a private care home for the elderly in Madrid, as they failed to properly monitor a resident who later died from dehydration and Covid-19.
The three doctors, who were in charge of the patient from March 19, 2020, have been accused of not checking-up on the patient, who had already experienced previous episodes of dehydration and lack of body mass.
This neglect meant that no one detected the respiratory infection, caused by Covid, and the severe dehydration that the patient was suffering from until it was too late.
The resident first started to show symptoms compatible with coronavirus on March 10 and the doctors, from the Defensa Gómez Ulla Central Hospital, who first saw him mentioned a possible diagnosis of malnourishment and advised that the patient be monitored and brought to the emergency room if his condition worsened.
However, the three doctors at the care home did not check on the resident until March 24, when they were informed by the nursing assistants that he had a fever.
That same day, after a week of neglecting the patient, one of the doctors visited the man and prescribed a blood glucose test, but made no mention of dehydration or a respiratory infection.
The patient’s family members are unhappy with the medical attention that he received and believe that the man, who died on April 8, should have been taken to the hospital. Additionally, the authorities have stated that he was denied the possibility of medical treatment.
This is the seventh disciplinary act in care homes in Madrid for actions relating to the coronavirus pandemic and, in this case, the doctors are to be investigated for the failure to provide medical attention and reckless homicide.
In this particular care home, 69 people died in total from March 8 until May 23, 2020, of whom 25 had symptoms compatible with coronavirus, although only 19 had been officially diagnosed.
In total, more than 20,000 care home residents are acknowledged to have died from coronavirus during the first wave of the pandemic by the industry body, but most were never officially recorded as Covid deaths, due to the lack of testign facilities during the first wave.
Their deaths have, therefore, never been officially included in the fatalities statistics for covid deaths in Spain.
Many more cases such as this, are expected to follow.
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