Alfonso Gomis Salas

died at dawn last Wednesday at the

General Hospital of Castellón

.

He neither had Covid-19 nor died from this virus.

Yes, in the middle of the tsunami of a pandemic that has put public health on the ropes, the closure of the operating rooms, decreed shortly before Christmas, prevented them from operating, his condition was complicated this past week until he died after a second admission.

A "critical pancreatitis", as explained by his daughter

Olaia

, ended her life in the middle of a health crisis in which to the "closure of operating rooms" must be added what she considers "negligence."

The General abolished his surgical intervention on December 22, already planned and with the preoperative underway, entering the waiting list and, after suffering complications, he returned to the Castellón hospital to finally lose his life.

What was a "moderate pancreatitis" degenerated into a more serious one that took Alfonso away on 20 January.

He had been admitted on Sunday the 17th. "They didn't want to operate on him during this second admission either and he ended up dying," his daughter Olaia complains that, two days before her father lost his life, she had already gone to

the Patient Information and Attention Service (SAIP)

to file a complaint.

"I went to report the situation after his doctor told me that he would discharge him if he considered it," says the deceased's daughter.

The next day the doctor himself called her to tell her that her father's condition had been complicated.

He barely lasted a few hours.

Alfonso Gomis' first admission occurred on December 4.

At 76, the man suffered from gallbladder problems.

“He had some stones that led to pancreatitis.

He was treated and they sent him home with the commitment to operate on him ”, explains his daughter, who remembers that he left the hospital on the preoperative day.

"We went on December 22 and they told him then that he could not operate, that the operating rooms had been closed due to Covid-19, and that he was on the waiting list," adds this relative.

EMERGENCIES

Despite the fact that the patient was on a strict diet and medication, on January 17 he returned to

the General

Emergency

with new pancreatitis.

Neither was he operated on despite the fact that his daughter so claimed it from the doctor who was taking her father.

"He told me that it was the same as the other time and that it was moderate pancreatitis," explains Olaia, who notices that all this was told him over the phone due to the impossibility of attending the consultation.

"It was then that I went to file the complaint because I saw that my father was not going to have surgery either and that they would send him home when his condition had worsened," explains Alfonso's daughter, who the next day received a call from the doctor to warn him of that his condition had worsened.

"Then they let us into the room for the first time, and at least he did not die alone," says Olaia, convinced that "they could have opened an operating room if they had wanted or referred him to the private room for surgery, but they did not want to."

The family is very clear that they will go to court once "we collect all the evidence and documentation" so that "those who do not look after the health of the patients stop practicing.

An operating room could be opened and it was not done and my father is gone.

I will not forgive him because he died due to the carelessness of the doctors.

Here it is not about money but about asking for responsibilities. I know that Covid-19 is something very serious but also that there are patients who need urgent attention and undergo surgery, "he complains.

In the complaint filed with the SAIP by the family of the deceased, everything that happened is related, always according to the daughter, including documentation such as the discharge report, the current treatment report, her inclusion in the waiting list and the preoperative that he was referred before his intervention was suspended.

From the General Hospital of Castellón they have lamented "enormously the death and we express our condolences" to the family.

Sources from the center have acknowledged that “the relatives of the patient you refer have filed the subsequent complaint with the Patient Care and Information Service, who will issue a response shortly based on the clinical criteria collected in their history by each of the teams professionals who attended him ».

"Since it is personal data, we cannot transmit information about the events that occurred", add sources from

the Castelló

n

Health Department

.

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