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Another recent example where a family blames the healthcare system for the death of a loved one.
This is a 64-year-old man with pneumonia and a negative coronavirus test.
On November 2, Asen Yankov went to see Dr. Krassimir Elenkov with complaints of shortness of breath. He gave him a prescription and sent him to a pulmonologist, Assen’s wife says.
“They tell him that he has an acute viral infection and that he begins to take his medication on Friday to go for a checkup. On Friday he goes to the control examination in question, but there he does not examine him, he only tells him to continue with the medication, that it will disappear, but it will take time, ”explained Penka Yankova.
Two days later, the 64-year-old felt ill and, according to his relatives, he went to see Dr. Elenkov again.
“He didn’t even examine it and said, ‘I told you you had to wait 14 days,'” Asen Yankov’s wife complained.
We are looking for Krassimir Elenkov. He said over the phone that there was no such patient and that he had never treated him. However, the recipe issued has Elenkov’s name and stamp. The doctor stopped responding to our calls and written inquiries.
Within hours of the doctor’s visit, Assen’s condition deteriorated dramatically.
“I was lying in bed with severe respiratory failure. I got scared and immediately called an ambulance. I called 112. After a two minute conversation with them, they told me that they could not send an ambulance. They said the system was currently overloaded. due to the coronavirus and that there were no free ambulances at this time. ”
The emergency number 112 confirmed that such a call had been made. However, they were unable to set up a conference call with the ambulance phones because everyone was busy at the time. They offered to send it to the address of the online system. So Yankov’s son decided to take him alone to the Academy of Military Medicine.
“After a few seconds, a doctor appeared, probably a nurse, and said that he would call a doctor. He never called a doctor until I saw that my father had lost consciousness. I screamed that the man was about to leave and of course there was a doctor, suddenly at least three doctors appeared, ”said Assen’s son.
And Assen’s latest third test for coronavirus was negative. Later, relatives learned that he had died. The Academy of Military Medicine has not yet responded to our inquiry about what happened to the patient and for how long the medical care was provided.
