Katerina Azor She was 19 years old that year and was about to marry her childhood sweetheart. He graduated from high school with a degree in chemical engineering, and a few weeks ago he started studying criminology in the gendarmerie. “Katie was very studious. She didn’t like sports, but she loved reading. She was the love of my life, and the two of us went everywhere together,” she recalls. Roxana D’Angelo, his mom.
On January 26, 2021, the young woman was admitted to the Nuestra Señora de Fátima clinic with severe abdominal pain. Four days later, he died. During that short stay, the doctor who saw her “never” gave her family an accurate diagnosis. They even attribute their discomfort to “hormonal issues” caused by the thyroid problems that have plagued Katrina for years. But according to the autopsy, he died of “peritonitis.”
Or at least, that’s how her mother read more than a year later in a file handled by Pilar’s third prosecutor’s office, which ordered the seizure of the victim’s medical history and an autopsy. “She doesn’t drink, she doesn’t smoke, she doesn’t eat fatty foods, she’s all veggies, everything is natural, so to speak. They told her her discomfort was hormonal and I made an appointment with an endocrinologist. This is what they gave Our only diagnosis,” Roxanne explained.
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To understand this case, you have to break it down into parts. In mid-December 2020, as his mother explained to this portal, Catalina Her legs began to swell and she developed recurrent high fevers. “Due to a thyroid problem, her condition is under control and she has been on T4 for a year. She started in December 2020 with swelling in her feet and inflammation in her legs and feet,” he said.
“We started going to the hospital and they told him it was a hormonal issue and he needed an endocrinologist appointment. They had booked him in for an ultrasound in February 2021, but they never had an appointment,” he recalled. At the Señora de Fátima clinic, they always gave her the same answer: since she had a thyroid problem and took medication, they attributed her symptoms to a hormonal problem.
But that wasn’t the only diagnosis he received. Catalina: “Among the guards they told her she had angina and put her on some medicine. They also gave her a swab just in case, but the test came back negative. I took her to Fati I went to the clinic a couple of times, where she said it was a hormone thing and he should go to social work.”
On Tuesday, January 26, 2021, the young student of criminology went to the Vía Sano social work at 9 am to have his blood drawn. Precisely, the building of this entity is located in front of the Nuestra Señora de Fátima Clinic. “I took her there and they drew her blood and I asked the doctor to take care of her because Katie had vomited what she ate, drank water and vomited again. They insisted it was a hormone effect,” she said. Roxana explained that she has been seeking justice for the matter. More than two years.
As she explained to this site, social work refused to care for her because they only cared for patients by phone. “At Vía Sano, they refused to take care of her because they only answered by phone. They had teleconsultations, and at that moment I was already crazy, I grabbed Katie, I passed in front of her, she couldn’t even walk, I took She went to the Fatima clinic and I ask you to find a doctor on emergency duty because I was rotting. That’s when a doctor attended to her and they did a test and she was there all day until five in the afternoon The hospital order came out around 10:00. , we were in the clinic all day,” he explained.
On the same Tuesday, the doctor grabbed Roxana and told her verbatim: “Mom, this girl is fine, we’re going to keep her in the hospital because we can’t find her things.” They decided to subject her to all rigorous inspections. “I went to see her on the 27th and she was better, they did some ultrasounds and the doctor told me the kidneys were perfect, they did x-rays, they did a CT scan, they didn’t know what she had , because they have not been found. they know. On the morning of the 28th, Katie sent me a message telling me she wasn’t feeling or looking well,” Roxanne said.
According to her account, her daughter told her via WhatsApp that she was “crying in pain” that night and that no doctor or nurse came to see her condition. “She asked me to get her out of there. She told me: ‘Mom, get me out of here, get me out of here.’ When I arrived, the nurse at the front of Katie’s room grabbed me, she was in room 105, she Tell me: “Let’s see mom, you take charge because that’s not possible, that girl is going all day long saying it hurts, it hurts, it’s impossible. “It hurts because it really hurts,” he said.
That’s when Roxanne paused to wipe away inevitable tears, noting that her daughter’s doctor would visit her from time to time and that the nurse was “disgusting” as she recalled the situation. “She told me that the doctor came to see her now and then and didn’t see her almost the whole night. I trusted the doctor 100% because to me, everything the doctor said was done for a reason. I put my daughter’s life in my hands To them. That was the result. Around ten o’clock in the morning the doctor, Dr. La Forcade, came to see her, examined her, and introduced me to Mr. Rudolph, the surgeon.” He remembered.
Roxana noted that her daughter went from not getting an accurate diagnosis to having to undergo surgery to have a “little camera” placed on the side of her navel because they wanted to find out more about it “Can’t find”. “They told me they found fluid behind the appendix that didn’t match that place, and that the appendix was a bit inflamed, but it wasn’t important. That’s what Rudolph told me. They were going to take her upstairs and she’d take a few hours to accept treatment and then they will take him to the common room,” the distraught woman told big Bang.Nightmare despite encouraging diagnosis Catalina just began.
Just 24 hours later, health experts called Roxana to tell her that her daughter was a candidate for a transplant, but they did not specify which organ. “By January 29, the doctors told me my liver stopped working, my kidneys weren’t working, I wasn’t urinating, and they didn’t know what was wrong with me,” he said.
The victim’s mother described how doctors diagnosed her with possible “mononucleosis” and asked if she Catalina She used to have hepatitis: “They told me they didn’t know what virus she had, they didn’t know what it was, and they wanted to refer her to a high complexity center because she could be a possible candidate for a transplant .They never knew how to tell me…”
For all this, social work does not give them an answer. Every minute, as if time seemed to be running out, Viasano announced that they would send an ambulance to take her to the hospital. According to Roxanne, the same process took over two hours and when she arrived they told her that a transfer was not feasible because she was “intubated”: if they took her she wouldn’t have arrived and I should be relieved , because of them we will guard this place until she recovers. “
Finally, at 12:30 noon on January 31, Katerina’s body could no longer bear the abuse of the doctor who “cared for her” and passed away. “When my son asked the therapist if everything possible was done for his sister, he told him: ‘I don’t know, as soon as I arrived, the girl died.’ That’s all I got from the clinic .that’s all the answers, all the explanations, everything they told us. If it’s because of the clinic, to this day I don’t know what happened to my daughter. I found peritonitis by reading the files, because even the prosecutors didn’t tell Me. At that moment, the only thing I asked was for them to kill me because I didn’t want to live, I didn’t want to live without my daughter,” she said through tears.
Roxana explained to the portal that the only thing keeping her going was her desire to “do justice for her daughter”.The complaint was filed by the father Catalina The Justice Department called for an investigation into the violations, and a judge ordered an autopsy, which ultimately led to the victim’s death from “peritonitis.” “In the medical report, they said he died of septic shock and intra-abdominal infection,” he said.
He added: “For two years, they have been silent. Completely silent. What’s more, I have launched a mobilization campaign to ask Dr. Laforcade and Dr. Rudolph to come out and give me an explanation to demand that my daughter Explain.” “Nobody came out. They shut our door, they laughed at us on the second floor. Death Clinic. That’s what the Pilar people call it. My daughter’s situation is not the only one.”
The reason continues with the same cover so far: cause of death investigation.family Catalina Complaint says it was ‘blocked’ and targeted against clinic owner, Antonio La Greca, he is the president of the Pilar Radical Citizens League. In addition, they demanded that the doctors treating their daughter pay for at least a halt in medical activity to avoid new victims. “It took them two years to persevere and fight for justice. My son is devastated, his father attempted suicide twice after Katie. He is still a psychologist, on medication and out of work .So we are taking care of her as best as we can,” he concluded.