The directors of hospitals from Pardubice and Čáslav are finding out exactly what happened. Step by step, they map the patient’s four-day journey from the doctor’s office from Třemošnice in the Chrudim region through hospitals in Pardubice and Čáslav to Prague Na Bulovku, where he died last week on Thursday.
According to the Pardubice hospital, the general practitioner did not find out that the patient had pneumonia. He did not suggest that he even test him for covid-19. The doctor had the phone turned off during Thursday.
According to the director of the hospital in Pardubice, Miroslav Sirový, the general practitioner should know in the patient that he has pneumonia. According to him, that did not happen. “He should have sent the patient for a coronavirus test,” he said.
We definitely did not reject the patient, say the hospital
A patient with several diseases came to the infection department in Pardubice on Monday afternoon. “There were four patients with relatively serious problems that needed to be addressed. We definitely did not reject the patient at the given moment, on the contrary, “says Kateřina Semrádová, spokeswoman for the Pardubice Hospital.
In Pardubice, they claim that they offered the patient either to wait two hours or to come to the examination in Čáslav himself. The patient left. It wasn’t until Wednesday that they found out he had a coronavirus. He was taken to Prague, where he died.
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The man’s brother called on the town hall in Ronov nad Doubravou, where the patient went, to cancel the weekend pilgrimage, which was to take place in a few days. The office consulted with the hygienists and the pilgrimage eventually took place. “They told us that they found practically no other case, that there is no source of infection here,” says Ronov Mayor Marcel Lesák (STAN).
“Given that he was exposed to incapacity for work from a doctor without the possibility of walks, we assume that he was in contact with a minimum of people,” says Jana Daňková from the Regional Hygiene Station of the Pardubice Region.
The case is also being dealt with by the police. “As part of the investigation, we are conducting an investigation into the person of the deceased and the circumstances of his death,” confirmed police spokeswoman Dita Holečková.
The Ministry of Health is also interested in the case. “There are some ambiguities for me personally. It will be good if it is checked, “commented the Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch (for YES). Patient deaths are currently being investigated by five institutions.
Problems of the Pardubice hospital
This is not the first similar problem for the Pardubice hospital. He warned last year Czech Television documentary from the Infiltration series for a case where a boy who had started bleeding profusely after tonsil surgery and ended up in a waking coma had been waiting in the hospital corridor for help from paramedics.
Before the end of the year, Pardubice doctors also faced criticism in connection with serious problems of a newborn baby girlwho suffered from sepsis after birth and did not receive antibiotics in time. The consequences will be borne for a lifetime.
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