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Despite the fact that the Government and the management of the San José Hospital denied it, workers from said healthcare facility assured that a patient would have died due to the lack of a ventilator.
The situation was denounced on Sunday night by the Federation of Public Health Associations, who accused the death of a 36-year-old patient at the San José Hospital because there were no mechanical fans available. However, the director of the venue, Luis Escobar, denied that he died for not having access to one of these devices.
From the Government, the Undersecretary of Assistance Networks, Arturo Zúñiga, indicated that “I have communicated directly with the director of the hospital and he has informed me that this patient arrived in extremely serious conditions, that the resuscitation maneuvers were carried out, but unfortunately the patient died ( …) We discard that there has been a lack of fans ”.
The anesthesiologist and capitular of the Medical College of that establishment, Manuel Lorca, told La Tercera that “a 36-year-old patient required to be intubated, he arrived with a major respiratory failure. That patient was waiting for an invasive mechanical ventilator. In the meantime, while waiting, the patient fell unemployed and an attempt was made to resuscitate for 30-35 minutes, but it was not enough. He finally died and the cause of the arrest was hypoxia, that is, due to lack of oxygen and lack of ventilatory support. ”
The same doctor, in conversation with La Segunda, indicated that the patient “required invasive mechanical ventilation, but there were no ventilators available and they were holding it so that when a fan was released it would be connected immediately. In the meantime he made a stoppage, an attempt was made to remove him from the strike and it could not be done.
“He was trying to hold on to contact the emergency ventilator who was expected to was going to be vacated soon because they were waiting for the death of that other patient, “he added.
According to what La Tercera reported, the patient was treated in the first instance with a non-invasive ventilator while the team tried to obtain an invasive mechanical ventilator. At the time, one was available, but there would have been no circuits to install and run it.
Another doctor on the premises – who chose to protect his identity – assured that “the patients are indeed dying because there are no fans.”
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