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An article shared on the Solidarumas union website a few days ago recalls the events of several months ago, when an elderly woman with a coronavirus was not admitted to the Ukmergė hospital and simply died in an ambulance.
According to the article, on that day, the Ukmerg ambula ambulance station (GMP) received a call due to the serious health condition of an elderly patient.
After visiting the patient, the chief of the GMP AJ brigade assessed the patient’s condition as life threatening, called the emergency department of the Ukmergė hospital according to the established procedure, warned that the patient urgently needs resuscitation and took her to the hospital from Ukmergė. However, upon arrival at Ukmergė Hospital, GMP employees faced an unpleasant surprise.
This is how the chief of the GMP A.J brigade recounted the following events: “On March 20. We brought an emergency resuscitated patient (who later turned out to have COVID 19) to Ukmergė Hospital, but we were not admitted to the emergency department, although I informed the emergency department about the incoming serious patient, the hospital staff did not open the closed door. My various bells on the doorbell. “The hospital’s emergency department said that we would not be admitted and that we could transport the patient wherever we wanted.”
Ukmergė Hospital (photo TV3)
Such a response was incomprehensible, because the critically ill patient was taken to Ukmergė Hospital in accordance with the written instructions of Chief Medical Officer Gitana Čepienė on the GMP bulletin board.
The patient was taken to the Ukmergė emergency department with his consciousness already obscured, but he was still able to breathe and respond to environmental stimuli.
As the patient’s condition rapidly deteriorated, the doctors, loyal to Hippocrates’ oath, began to resuscitate her with what they could, i. only by means available to the GMP brigade. Three members of the GMP brigade participated in the resuscitation. The resuscitation was carried out in accordance with the requirements of the established legal acts.
“Because it was an unprecedented event when patients admitted and resuscitated by GMP are unable to enter the hospital’s emergency department,” said AJ, “one of the drivers’ paramedics asked me to film the fact that the patient is being resuscitated on a mobile phone and the door of the hospital emergency room is not open. ” “
GMP doctors tried to resuscitate the patient for another good half hour, but they did not save her life.
Alerts removed
After all the case on April 22. For ambulance personnel (GMP) A.J. and M.S. Misconduct alerts and warnings were issued.
However, on June 23. Gitana Čepienė, the chief physician of the Ukmergė Primary Health Care Center, abolished them.
This was done in accordance with the peace treaty concluded at the Vilnius Branch 5th Labor Disputes Commission meeting, where the legality of this warning was discussed.
The tv3.lt portal recalls that the death of a woman of honorable age, who had already been discharged from the Ukmergė Hospital on March 19, two days later, on March 21, was announced by representatives of the Ministry of Health.
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