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Thursday, June 09, 2005
Nurse under fire for infant's death
By Joey P. Nacalaban
A NURSE assigned in one of the private hospitals in Cagayan de Oro is now the subject of an investigation in relation to the death of a five-month-old dengue afflicted patient Wednesday morning.
The child's parents, Andres and Eden Llanzana, residing at Zone 6, Gumamela St., Barangay Carmen, said all they want is justice for their child.
In an interview with Eden, she said she and her husband brought their two children--the other a 15-year-old boy--to Madonna Child Hospital located at Seriña St., Barangay Carmen due to dengue fever last May 29.
She said the elder brother was the first to recover after being treated but the younger child unfortunately didn't survive.
She said the child was even confined at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) until June 2.
She identified the doctor who took care of the patient. The doctor, however, went to Manila last June 3 and would simply give orders through cell phone on the dosage of the medicine to be administered.
The doctor's name is being withheld until his side is heard on the matter. Eden said she noticed that a nurse whom she identified as a certain Maryjane Namagat administer the medicines intravenously.
Well
She said every time a forton antibiotic is administered to the child the latter would experience chills that would last for several minutes.
"But on June 6 my child was well, she even played and laughed. I even breastfed her which indicated that she was well and she doesn't have fever," Eden narrated.
The nurse even advised her to transfer the child to a ward section of the said hospital.
Eden said on June 7, Dr. Ong told her that she would be referred to a certain Dr. Diola, a doctor that specializes in dengue.
She recounted that later on between 9 and 10 a.m. that day Namagat arrived and as usual injected the medicine to the infant.
Eden said before the injection she complained to the nurse not to inject her child anymore because she felt better but to no avail.
She said 10 minutes after the injection, the patient began to experience chills forcing hospital personnel rushed her to the ICU.
Admission
Eden said such condition continued that another doctor decided to conduct an operation to the patient.
According to Eden the doctor started to inflict cuts on the right arm of the child purposely to look for bigger veins where they could insert an intravenous tube to administer the medicine. But at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday the infant died.
In an interview Namagat admitted to City Councilor Zaldy Ocon, who was also the anchorman of RMN-DXCC radio that she administered the medicine to the patient.
She said it was the same medicine that had been administered to the infant since the former was confined at the hospital.
She reasoned that she couldn't be faulted as she was just following orders from an attending doctor. When asked who was the doctor she was referring to, Namagat refused to name names.
An autopsy was conducted Wednesday afternoon by the medico-legal officer of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
Dr. Tammy Uy told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro that he would bring his findings to Manila and results would come out in six months.
He said initial findings showed that the brain was full of blood indicating that the patient was suffering from head hemorrhage.
He said he would still give the full results of the autopsy Thursday.
(June 9, 2005 issue)
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