11/24/2020 9:03 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/24/2020 12:48 PM
A strong complaint of negligence and helplessness, once again, adds to the long list of a province of Formosa that cannot get out of the controversy.
This time, a man says that
his wife, a pregnant woman about to give birth
,
was denied an ambulance
, had to travel on motorcycles to two hospitals and finally her baby died.
The incident occurred last week in the town of Laguna Naineck.
There Silvio Paredes called the local hospital when his wife, Romina Ojeda, began to feel strong contractions.
She called for an ambulance so they could transfer her and came across a wall.
"My wife was pregnant, I called the Laguna Naineck ambulance and
they told me they were not coming
. I made five attempts, they ignored me," Paredes said in dialogue with the
El Comercial
portal
.
And he said that a nurse from the same hospital told him to take his wife "as he could."
Faced with this situation, the couple saw that they had no choice but to move on their own and decided to get on a motorcycle to be able to get to the hospital as soon as possible.
"
I had no choice
," Silvio lamented resignedly.
But that was only going to be the beginning of a nightmare.
First, they had to move for five kilometers of land and wells from Villa Lucero to Laguna Naineck.
"They did not ask me if the road was ugly, if I had the means to get there, they told me you have to bring your wife here and then we refer her to Laguna Blanca," added the man.
"They give us orders so that the patients go as we can, like dogs, on foot or by motorcycle, they
don't give a damn what happens to those of us who live in the countryside
. What the nurse who was on duty did that is unforgivable. Sunday, November 15. And I don't know if it was because I took my wife on a motorcycle that she had this problem and this loss, that's why I want all the people to know about this complaint that I am making with all the pain in my heart for my baby. deceased and because I do not want the same to happen to another person ", Silvio downloaded in dialogue with Naineck Prensa Digital.
Once they arrived at the Naineck hospital, they checked the woman's blood pressure and assured her that everything was fine.
That quick diagnosis led the parents to believe that the baby was still alive.
But they told them that "yes or yes" they had to refer Romina to Laguna Blanca because "there is only one nurse" in Naineck.
According to Silvio, that place "used to be a hospital, now it is a little room."
And he denounces that "sometimes doctors come in the morning, but on Sundays nobody comes."
With that information, the couple also had to move on their own to Laguna Blanca.
And there the world fell apart for them: they
were told that their baby had no vital signs
.
"I felt my baby moving in my tummy, but they told me that they supposedly did not hear his heartbeat. They did an ultrasound, but they did not do it well," Romina said.
And he insisted: "
I was sorry, they just had to operate on me urgently
."
The Hospital de la Madre y el Niño, in the capital of Formosa.
The woman assures that they put serum there, but that the doctor did "nothing" more.
And on top of that, after telling her that her son had died, they referred her again, this time to the hospital in the city of Formosa.
"Instead of doing the cesarean section in Laguna Blanca, they sent her to the Formosa hospital
to get
rid
of it
, so I turn to the media to listen to this. I'm very sick, I lost my baby who was going to be a boy," he lamented Silvio before the press.
And he assured that his wife "did all the checks, but whenever he had them in the hospital they told him that the machine was broken."
She also specified that they did two ultrasounds during her pregnancy but they
never informed her how many months she was
.
Finally they were transferred to Formosa and although Romina assures that "on the way she felt the kicks" of her baby, the director of the La Madre y El Niño hospital in the provincial capital, Víctor Fernández, said that the baby "had
already been over 48 hours that she had no heartbeat inside her mother's belly
. "
"Already in Naineck the negative beats were confirmed that were corroborated in Laguna Blanca through an ultrasound and then the patient was referred to Formosa where the cesarean section was performed as soon as she arrived," added Fernández, contradicting the version of the victim's parents.
Romina assures that the doctors in Laguna Blanca did not do the ultrasound "well" there to finish verifying what they had already anticipated.
For the woman, "their responsibility" was to give her "an emergency cesarean section"
, something they finally had to do in Formosa.
But in Naineck they also crossed the family because of the complaint.
The director of the local hospital, Gregorio Bertuol, denied that the baby died due to medical negligence.
"
By no means is everything that is said true
, since the report has shown that unfortunately
that baby was already deceased in his mother's belly
and not because he was not brought or was not searched for by ambulance, he died, it is a fallacy, "he said in statements to FM radio 88.5 Dimension.
And he concluded that while he understands "the parents' pain" for the loss, "that does not give them the right to go out on the media and say things that are not true."
"We are convinced that we do the impossible for the well-being of our community. These things that happened are not going to tarnish the great work that we health workers do here in the town," Bertuol concluded.
Formosa, in the eye of the storm
In recent weeks, Formosa has become the center of controversy in social and health matters.
Since the pandemic began, the Gildo Insfrán government decided to close the borders, causing various situations that could have been avoided.
The one of the man who decided to swim across the river in order to enter the province to see his daughter was the first of the great tragedies that surrounded the controversy.
Then there were several people from Formosa who could not enter until these last days in which the Justice ordered that they be allowed to pass, despite the refusal of the provincial government.
This Monday the case of a man who was allowed admission five months after he died in the province of Chaco, where he had gone to undergo cancer treatment, was released.
He had been waiting a month for authorization to return home until the moment of his death.
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