A 95-year-old woman dies on August 28 at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville due to the injuries he suffered in the hospital itself after fall from a stretcher which, according to his family, was in poor condition.
In the statements to ‘Seville Journal“, her daughter reported that the fall happened on August 21 while they were waiting for the ambulance that would take the elderly woman home after she was discharged. That’s when one of the stretcher’s rails gave way and the woman fell, hitting her head. As a result, suffered a stroke and died a week later.
It happened at dawn, at a time when the old woman “had been on that stretcher for three and a half hours,” when her daughter separated for a moment to sit a few meters away: “I heard an incredible roar and when I looked up I saw it was my mother.. He was on the ground with his whole face covered in blood, in fact they had to give him 10 stitches. “I was shocked,” he explained to the aforementioned media.
“My mother died from the blow who hit his head when falling a stretcher that was not in good condition“, denounced the daughter of the deceased, who maintains that the state of the stretchers is “terrible” and demands that they be replaced: “They are not acceptable. They are made of iron. “The guardrails have an incredible clearance and it was enough for my mother to lean on them, because of her discomfort, for them to give way and for her to fall on her head,” he lamented.
Interviewed this Friday in Más Vale Tarde, the daughter of the deceased, who turned to the Patient Advocate association and is already in contact with a lawyer to take the next steps, regretted that her mother “She was fine, she was released and she came out dead.” and insisted that “All the stretchers are in very poor condition” and anyone “can walk in, be on that stretcher and see the exact same thing happen.”
“I’m not looking for compensation, I’m looking for justice.that these mistakes are corrected and that we protect public health and do not let the situation get worse, as it does every day,” he said.
Hospital Statement
For his part, the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) issued a statement on Friday regretting the death of the elderly woman, making itself available to the family and indicating that it continues investigate the facts“The accident occurred while the patient, who had already been released, was with a family member, waiting for an ambulance to take her home,” states the note, which echoes the testimony of the victim’s daughter.
The same press release explains that in the event of this type of event, a internal analysis coordinated by patient safety representatives. A process, he assures, that “always starts, whether or not there is a complaint.” The note adds that the center has procedures to review and maintain clinical equipment and furniture so that any material that does not meet quality and safety criteria is removed for repair or replacement.
However, he points out that “67% of the hospital’s emergency stretchers are less than 18 months old” and specifies that last year, 94,889.53 euros were allocated to general furniture; 113,129 euros to clinical furniture and 17,068 euros to stretchers.
