Jesus Utrilla | Nevada News
Relatives of children with various illnesses stood outside the Veracruz Children’s Hospital, demanding experts, especially pulmonologists.
Mothers said they had children in desperate need of doctors.
They also blame delays in research within the hospital, which is not allowed to conduct those analyzes outside or hire outside pulmonologists.
The relatives blocked November 20 Avenue and awaited a response from the Department of Health (SS) and the Veracruz State Health Services.
Mariana Malpica noted that her 5-year-old son, José Antonio Máfara, was hospitalized. He has been intubated in the pediatric intensive care unit since October 4.
“He was admitted to the hospital on October 3 and they operated on him and he recovered well after the operation but he developed bronchial aspiration and bile got into his lungs. He was not here because of the operation but because of His lungs. I asked to see a pediatric pulmonologist because there is no such specialty here. The agent came twice.”
Ms. Carla Angelica Flores, the mother of 13-year-old Carla, pointed out that her daughter was hospitalized with severe pneumonia. They come from Qadr, their hometown. At the hospital, they intubated her due to the loss of function in both of her lungs, however, they were told there were no pulmonary specialists and they were not allowed to have an outside specialist examine her.
“They said they were doing what a pulmonologist would do to him. A week later they extubated her, and two days later they intubated her again because her oxygenation dropped. “They wouldn’t let us bring a pulmonologist The doctor came and we asked them to let us bring him to check on my daughter. “
They warned of a shortage of pediatric pulmonologists because some 80 minors hospitalized in the pediatric oncology unit permanently require a pediatric pulmonologist, which in turn leads to delays in chemotherapy.