Rosa Paz was 16 years old. She was studying second year of Baccalaureate in Barranquitas, Rosario de Perijá municipality. in January they moved her from that town to Manuel Noriega Wheat Hospitallocated in the San Felipe sector, San Francisco municipality. There she gave birth to a child, who died shortly after being born.
(The boy) had ingested poop, due to Rosa’s problem, which was strangling a hernia in her gallbladder.” The words of Jorge Luis Paz, brother of the teenager, when he explained why the newborn died, were heard in a WhatsApp voice note, because the cell phone signal in Barranquitas has many problems.
Ensure peace that Rosa’s pregnancy was “normal”she was normal with her pregnancy, she was a first-timer”.
The father of Rosa’s child, we do know him, he is from here in the town, we do know him, he spends his time here in the town,” Jorge Luis told Final versionHowever, he did not answer the question about whether the baby’s father was a student or if he was the same age as the girl, so more information about that person is unknown.
The ordeal of a teenager
Since Rosa was transferred to the Manuel Noriega Trigo Hospital, the care was normal, like any patient. But as time passed, after having been operated on, they began to remove her body, they did not want to attend to her anymore, ”said Jorge Luis from Barranquitas.
“Then the doctors did not find what to doThey didn’t want to attend to her… My mother had time to attend to her, wash her, clean her, treat her, “added Rosa’s brother.
According to Paz, the doctors stated that the girl’s small intestine was very delicate and she had a “leak”, that’s why they operated on her and they left her abdomen open.
So they left her open with the leak she had and that’s why she was hospitalized for four months, because they couldn’t find what to do, hoping to stop the leak she had, “he said.
consider that there “There was malpractice, she was operated on so many times that they broke her urinary bladder”.
He said that the doctors placed bags on Rosa so that she could relieve herself given the circumstance that her abdomen was open. “They put one on one side and one on the other. His gut was cut multiple times,” she said.
They did eight operations, because the second did not work, neither did the third, they continued to operate to see if they could close the leak, “Paz revealed.
The first doctor who operated on Rosa is called Yerry and another doctor who participated in another of the operations is called Liseth, Jorge Luis said, but he could not say the surnames of those doctors.
unfinished plans
Rosa was hoping to go back to school. His brother claimed that she had expressed her desire to continue her studies, upon leaving the hospital.
The young woman remained four months isolated in a room, since it had the opening in the abdomen, but there was little ventilation. The relatives denounced that the conditions in which the girl was found there were deplorable.
Rosa’s father, Jorge Paz, had requested help to transfer his daughter to the Coromoto Hospitaleven offered to “work for the rest of my life” to pay the corresponding expenses.
The fateful night of May 25 came. Those four months in which Rosa remained between four walls with open abdomen they ended his life.
A) Yes, the plans of that second year student from Barranquitas, to go back to school after leaving the “Noriega Trigo”, were truncated.
My sister is already resting in peace. She did everything we could, “said Jorge Luis in the midst of pain.
Money to “half eat”
After several hours of waiting in the morgue of the National Service of Medicine and Forensic Sciences (Senamecf)located next to the Body of Scientific, Criminal and Criminalistic Investigations (Cicpc)in Altos de Sol Amado, via La Chinita Airport, Rosa’s body was finally handed over to the next of kin on Saturday, May 28.
I was with my father in the morgue of the Cicpc del Sol Amado, and they did not want to give us the results of the autopsy… they said that it was a process, that we had to go later”, he exclaimed with some concern.
Jorge Luis he does not know when they will return to Maracaibo to collect the results of the autopsy.
We don’t have a way to go to Maracaibo, we are low-income, we don’t have money to pay the ticket and go there, we are from Barranquitas and to go to Maracaibo you spend, we hardly have enough to eatPeace recounted.
He commented that they sent a letter to Governor Manuel Rosales, “to see if he helps us withdraw those results”…
My dad and my mom filed a complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office, even from there they sent a forensic doctor to the hospital, and the forensic doctor was guided by stories… He saw it was just papers in stories, he did not see Rosa, “said Jorge Luis before the question about whether they would file a complaint for the death of his sister.
“We need help, someone to help us or to talk to the Governor, to seek help, to go and collect those autopsy papers,” he added.
Jorge Luis referred to some lawyers, friends of theirs, who, he affirms, want to help them carry out the procedures to withdraw the autopsy, “they told us that lawyers are needed for this process, we have two lawyers, friends of ours, to help us. ”.
This weekend, Rosa was buried in her hometown. It was a painful goodbye.