Baby died at the door of the Health Center. Service was “refused” because it was almost at the time of closure

The Public Prosecution Service is investigating the death of an 11-month baby who has suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest, at the door of the Idanha-a-Nova Health Center in the Castelo Branco district. According to the baby’s mother, the service was refused.

On August 22, Patricia took her 11 month baby, luanat the emergency room of the Idanha-a-Nova Health Center.

But he knocked with his nose at the door. According to the mother, it was 10 minutes to close the unit, that Friday, and the service was refused.

The story is told by, which says that the boy – healthy and without diagnosed health problems – began to get sick at dawn on the 22nd but, according to his mother, it seemed nothing serious. Had no fever, just vomited once and had some discomfort.

Patricia took him to the doctor, in the urgency of Castelo Branco, returned home and gave Luan the medicines that had been prescribed. But the state of health of baby continued to get worse.

Patricia was, then, at the emergency room of the Idanha-a-Nova Health Center. The service was refused and the baby died in that place.

“I don’t know what Luan had, but he They could have answered us. They did nothing“Patricia lamented.

A, the commander of the Firefighters and the Local Health Unit (ULS) of Castelo Branco Contrary to Patrícia’s version. State that the child was attended by the Health Center and that resuscitation maneuvers were done and the emergency medical vehicle was called (VMER), which has already been able to do.

According to the prosecutor of Castelo Branco, it is already investigating the death of Luan, who will have suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest.

I and ULS from Castelo Branco opened an internal inquiry to find out what happened. In a statement, the Ministry of Health detailed the response from INEM, noting that the Urgent Patient Orientation Center (CODO) received a call from the Health Center to ask for support for an 11 -month baby in cardiorespiratory arrest, but despite the efforts “the baby did not recover from the PCR situation”.