Thursday, August 09, 2007 Hospital probes death of Lapu boy
THE chief of the Lapu-Lapu City District Hospital will look into allegations of a mother that personal lapses by a nurse and a doctor of the hospital caused the death of her three-year-old son.
Yosneil Pedrosa Romo was brought at the hospital for diarrhea at 7:10 p.m. Tuesday. After a six-hour monitoring of his condition, the attending physician referred him to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical (VSMMC) in Cebu City.
But Romo’s mother Joylene had a different version.
She said her son died at the hospital because the assigned and the attending physician failed to administer the medication for her son.
Joylene visited Mayor Arturo Radaza’s office yesterday morning to seek for help for her son’s case.
Dr. Jaime Kaamino, the hospital’s chief, said in a radio dyLA report that even in the absence of a formal complaint, he will summon the nurse and the attending physician of the boy to question what really happened.
But chief nurse Grace Estremos said the boy died in the ambulance on the way to the VSMMC, not in their hospital.
She said it could no be personal lapses that caused the child’s death because there was a medical prescription from the attending physician.
She added that they administered hydrotherapy on the child because he was severely dehydrated. (AIV)
