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He was not hospitalized during the quarantine.
Jolanta Jonaitienė, who lost her husband, is convinced that today the father of three children and the grandfather who was expecting the birth of his second granddaughter would have been alive if the hospital doctors had provided him with the necessary help in time. The woman is determined to legally prove this and demand medical responsibility.
It will be recalled that a healthy man was diagnosed with heart failure a couple of years ago. In January of this year, he felt unwell, was treated at home, and had a certificate of inability to work. The patient waited for the heart rhythm restoration procedure, but did not receive it. During quarantine, scheduled patient care was suspended.
Jolanta said the man’s condition worsened on April 19. The ambulance crew took the man to the Šiauliai Hospital, but he was quickly released.
The ambulance went to Jonaičiai’s house in Gruzdžiai a couple of times, but did not bring the seriously ill man to the hospital. For the fourth time, on May 5, the ambulance A. Jonaitis took the already distressed person and could not save them.
J. Jonaitienė decided to seek justice and demand that the doctors be held responsible for the possible lack of timely assistance.
The conclusions are theoretical
Remigijus Mažeika, director of the Šiauliai Republican Hospital, formed a committee of specialists to investigate this case of the disease that ended tragically. The family of the deceased also upheld the conclusions. The response received from the Šiauliai Hospital on Tuesday surprised J. Jonaitienė.
Most of the answer is theoretical knowledge about heart failure. Relatives apparently should have been comforted by the fact that chronic heart failure was diagnosed in 130,000 people in Lithuania and up to 15 million in Europe.
The experts’ findings confirm that patients with heart failure have “a particularly high risk of mortality.” Half of the patients die within 5 years, “the prognosis is worse than in oncological diseases.”
Each fourth patient has been observed to return within 30 days of worsening symptoms after hospital treatment.
“It can be said that the case of Arūnas Jonaitis is neither exceptional nor rare when looking at Lithuanian and European statistics and the experience of cardiologists,” the hospital letter to the widow said.
The specialists’ conclusions affirm that A. Jonaitis received timely and qualified help in the hospital, and death, “unfortunately, unfortunately, is not always delayed, because heart failure is a dangerous condition with a poor prognosis.”
The hospital has been unable to obtain data on what family doctor exams and treatments have been applied to the patient in recent years, but has found records that he was not taking medication.
The Commission concluded that the results of the post mortem examination confirmed that Arūnas Jonaitis had died of a heart rhythm disorder caused by heart failure, which caused sudden death. J. Jonaitienė cited documents that the cause of her husband’s death was a heart attack.
“From these conclusions, I have to understand that a man would have died in 5 years anyway. Apparently, that’s why it wasn’t even worth treating, “said J. Jonaitienė.
She is determined to continue the legal battle due to the circumstances of her husband’s death. With the help of lawyers, the widow plans to apply to the prosecutor’s office for a state medical audit of this event at Šiauliai Hospital.
