Complaint The ozone therapy team denounces the judge 'obstacles' in La Plana
Health The police 'escort' the ozone therapy medical team to enter the ICU
While
Juan Francisco
fights at age 49 for his life admitted to the ICU of the La Plana hospital, the public health of the Valencian Community, backed by numerous support from scientific and health societies and groups, is waging a legal battle against the family of the Covid-19 patient and
advocates of ozone therapy as compassionate treatment
.
After the
complaint filed by the patient's family before the judge
to show the obstacles that the health workers of the Vila-real hospital complex put daily to the external medical team that applies the ozone therapy treatment, the Ministry of Health has confirmed that the lawyer of the The Generalitat presented last Wednesday to the Contentious Administrative Court number 1 of Castellón (the same court that approved the precautionary measures last week to approve the ozone therapy treatment) the request to lift these precautionary measures approved by a car on 13 August and
thus the ozone therapy treatment
that is being administered every eight hours to the patient
is suspended
.
According to the letter of the lawyer who provides legal assistance to the Generalitat Valenciana, this request would be the second request in this regard since, as specified “on August 16, the request to lift the precautionary measures adopted in This procedure, as a result of
the serious events that have been occurring in the hospital center as
a result of the execution of the precautionary measure adopted, and by means of this brief, as it has not yet been resolved by the court, we have come to expand the brief
requesting the lifting of the precautionary measures
".
The order that approved the precautionary measures allows the application of the treatment
Added to the reasons given by the Generalitat lawyer last Monday in this new petition to the court is the report issued last Tuesday, August 17, by the head of the human use department of the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS ) of the Ministry of Health. «In relation to the treatment with ozone therapy that has been authorized by means of the precautionary measure, and that we consider that it
puts the life of the patient at serious risk
to which it is being applied, because the treatment does not meet the clinical trials that endorse it, departing from its authorization of all the procedures and protocols established for its use in patients, and more to some, in critical patients such as It concerns us »the petition to the judge specifies. The report from the head of AEMPS highlights that “the Agency considers that, given its cataloging of medicine for human use, for access to this treatment
a clinical trial should have been started
or the precepts contained in Royal Decree 1015/2009
should have been
followed and
we are not aware of any authorized ozone trials at this center
or having received any request for compassionate use access from the center. "
According to the aforementioned Royal Decree, the Generalitat lawyer informs the judge that to apply the ozone therapy treatment that is currently being administered to the critical Covid-19 patient,
legal and medical requirements are necessary that have not been taken into account.
such as "the request of the doctor in charge of the hospital where the patient is admitted, the informed consent of the patient, the approval of the management of the hospital and the agreement of the promoter of the trial to provide the treatment."
Likewise, it is also highlighted in the report prepared by the head of the AEMPS that the information given by the plaintiff regarding ionized blood is denied, concluding that the Agency considers that
the definition of compassionate use
that would make an application authorize
is not met.
in the event that it was received at the Agency.
The report of the Medicines Agency specifies that “it is considered that in
the absence of evidence of the efficacy of ozone in critically ill patients with severe Covid
and uncertainty in patients with severe Covid pneumonia as well as the absence of ongoing clinical trials to support the When using this treatment,
compassionate use
is not considered at present -and in general-
an ideal option for the administration of ozone
, pending the demonstration of its efficacy and safety in the context of the closely controlled clinical trial » .
ICU patients condition
Thus, the request that the Generalitat lawyer has sent to the Castellón court insists that the requirements for the adoption of precautionary measure adopted as a consequence are not met with new facts and information obtained, among which it indicates that
the report of the AEMPS denies the medical report provided by the
patient's
family
to the judge and insists that there is a risk that threatens the effectiveness of the process and the subsequent sentence.
The need to offer a guarantee and the lack of reasons of necessity and urgency are also wielded by the counsel of the Consell, also concluding that «
the inconvenience and danger that the application of this ozone treatment is causing to the rest of the patients
has been accredited
who are in the Intensive Care Unit of La Plana when they have to open the windows with the consequent contamination of the room where other critically ill patients are, which
can have a very negative effect on their health ”
.
HEALTH STUDY REPORT THE FAMILY
CH
The Ministry of Health made public on Thursday its position regarding the accusations that the patient's family is making by publicly and judicially denouncing the
alleged obstacles that the health team of the Hospital de La Plana puts on the
external medical team that applies the ozone therapy treatment. "Given the serious accusations that the family has made publicly and judicially, assuring that the hospital team obstructs the work of the external team that treats the patient with ozone, the Department is considering taking legal action." According to the statement sent by the Health Department of the Generalitat Valenciana, "
this treatment, which does not have the scientific endorsement or the support of medical professionals, as well as the Spanish Agency for Medicines
, was authorized by a court for an external team to apply it to the patient »
The Minister of Health herself,
Ana Barceló
, wanted to highlight "the great professionalism of the team and the La Plana Intensive Care Unit, something that cannot be doubted at any time" and, in this sense, she stressed that
"We will do everything necessary to defend their work and professionalism"
regretting that "an attempt is made to spread any shadow of doubt in the face of faultless behavior that only aims to serve people's health."
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