• Health: Sanidad investigates the death from heart attack of a man rejected in a health center because he was due another

But hey, which health center corresponds to you?

To me? Well, I live in Pedrezuela.

Well go there.

But am I not saying that my chest hurts and I have tingling in my arms?

Sorry, go to Pedrezuela.

Laureano Muñoz turned around and, seeing that they were sending him 40 kilometers away, he said to his colleague and friend Alfonso Cañada, who had approached him at the health center: "Let's take the ass, let's get out of here." Two weeks later, Alfonso tells with regret: "I told him: 'Get over them, shoot and let a doctor see you ... If it is me, I'll stop them.'"

"They" were, in Cañada's story, the two toilets at the door of the Fuencarral Health Center who prevented Laureano from passing, with obvious symptoms of a heart attack . "We got into my car to go back to work, and from there he called 112, and asked them to go to the company, which is 1 kilometer from the health center. It took them 15 minutes to get there, but it was no use As soon as we reached the plant, Laureano sat down and collapsed. No one could revive him. "

Thus, after not receiving assistance at the nearest health center, Laureano Muñoz, 51, died on July 3, without a significant medical history, and left a widow. His wife, Raquel, with an appreciable degree of disability and with little income. The Community of Madrid has opened an internal investigation to determine why it was denied assistance at the Isla de Java street offices that Friday at 15:15 in the afternoon. The visit prior to Laureano's death appears in the police report filed shortly afterwards and the family has denounced the alleged omission of the duty to help the Prosecutor , advised by the Patient Ombudsman.

That morning, Laureano Muñoz was driving the concrete mixer he used to work from Loeches to the base of his company, Hormigones del Odón, on Calle Antonio Cabezón de Fuencarral, when his vision began to blur . His widow, Raquel speaks: "He came to a stop, halfway, because he couldn't see well and was worried."

Upon arriving at the plant, always according to the story of the family and his coworkers, it was clear to him that he felt bad. "He told me," says Alfonso Cañada, "that he felt pain in his chest, tingling in his arms, that they even hurt a little above his elbow , and that he was a little dizzy and did not see very well." Canada, whose wife is a nurse, quickly warned that they could be facing symptoms of a heart attack. "Two other colleagues and I were talking with him and I said to him: 'Come on, I am going to take you to the health center, which is next to you.' He was reluctant, but under pressure from the other two he agreed."

Both climbed into Cañada's car and traveled "in two minutes" the 1.1 kilometers that separate the company from the health center, on Isla de Java street, where the key events that the Prosecutor's Office and the Community of Madrid.

"We arrived and Laureano put on a mask, but since I was not wearing it when I got to the door, they told me to stay two steps behind. Still, logically, I listened to the whole conversation. First, they took his temperature by pointing at his forehead. There were two One took it and showed it to the other partner, who said: '36 .5 'And just then, after telling Laureano that he needed to see a doctor, who had pain in his chest and arms, they asked him if he was in charge of that health center. 'I live in Pedrezuela'. 'Well, go there'. 'But don't I tell him that my chest hurts?' ".

Pedrezuela, where Laureano lived with his wife, is a town in the so-called Sierra Norte de Madrid, located approximately 40 kilometers from the health center where he was denied access. "He got angry and turned around," says Alfonso Cañada. "Sure, now I blame myself for not insisting ... He was very pissed off and so was I ... Those at the door must have been nursing assistants or something, but they had to know perfectly well that someone with these symptoms should be cared for automatically, without delay. "

It was not a quarter of an hour from the refusal at the health center until Laureano Muñoz died suddenly, of the myocardial infarction that he had been warning for hours, and that struck him down "as soon as we reached the plant," narrates his partner. "He called 112 from the car, we got there, he started talking to two colleagues and suddenly he sat down. He said: 'How tired my legs feel'. It was sitting down and falling to the ground. I called my wife to see how we did the resuscitation maneuvers, imagine, we went crazy. I held his tongue while another partner was pumping his chest and another was blowing air. Then 112 came, but they couldn't do anything. "

Later, Cañada declared everything to the Police, and ordered them to take a statement at the health center. "They assured me they would go. It gives you incredible, incredible rage ... Because we might not know how to proceed, but anyone who works in a health center should know ... It is tremendous what has happened."

That of Laureano Muñoz is the second death occurred in Madrid in recent weeks from myocardial infarction after the patient was rejected in a health center for another one. At the end of June, Pedro MP died after he was not treated at the Reyes Católicos center in San Sebastián de los Reyes because another corresponded to him in the neighboring town of Alcobendas. The delay in attendance was fatal: Pedro sat on a bench in the street, in front of the ambulatory, and collapsed dead. The Community of Madrid and a court in Alcobendas are also investigating this case.

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