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The family of a 14-year-old girl who died as a result of meningitis has filed a property claim of 201,000 euros against the Andalusian Health Service (SAS).

On March 10, the minor was admitted to the Virgen del Camino Hospital in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, and then transferred to the Puertas del Mar Hospital in Cádiz, after an alleged error in her diagnosis.

Bufete Ortiz Abogados, in charge of the case, has reported in a statement that the minor arrived at the hospital with a series of symptoms that made the health workers believe that "she seemed to be under the influence of drugs" and shortly after refer to a diagnosis for "a sexual assault".

According to the lawyer's account, on March 10 the minor arrived at the Sanluqueño hospital "with intemperance, headache, vomiting, dizziness, stiffness in the neck and unintelligible language." With that symptomatology, his temperature was taken and a blood and urine test was carried out because, "according to a doctor and a nurse, he seemed to have symptoms of being under the influence of drugs."

The minor "was subjected to an 'interrogation' by the health personnel to think that she had consumed drugs of some kind and that is why she could not maintain a coherent and intelligible conversation", and was "forced without will" to extract the urine by probe, "causing enormous unnecessary damage" and that, according to the Firm, caused the minor "to start bleeding" and was confused as "a symptom of abuse".

It is then when the judicial authority is reported, which appeared with the forensic doctor and took proceedings, "dismantling any type of sexual assault."

After a few hours, he suffered seizures and up to two cardiorespiratory arrests "as a result of the passage from sepsis to septic shock."

A day later, and before her medical situation, the minor is transferred to the Puertas del Mar Hospital in Cádiz, where they manage to stabilize her although "she has severe brain damage" and "it is suspected that she suffers from septic shock of probable origin in the Central Nervous System and bacterial meningitis".

Three days after her first admission to the hospital in Sanlúcar, the doctors of the Cadiz center inform the family that the minor presents "multi-organ failure and brain death, so they proceed to the withdrawal of all devices, signing the death certificate".

For all these reasons, the family of the minor has filed a patrimonial claim against the Ministry of Health and Consumption "for very serious events caused in the Virgen del Camino Hospital in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a hospital arranged with the SAS", worth 201,820.56 euros.

Sources of the Government Delegation in Cádiz of the Junta de Andalucía have explained that they still have no record of having received the aforementioned patrimonial claim, however, once it arrives it will be attended and studied to determine the circumstances of the case.

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