Controversy over the death of a man in Arganda after calling an emergency room without a doctor

A 48-year-old man died this Saturday at his home in the Community of Madrid despite the intervention of a team from the continuous care point (PAC) of Arganda del Rey and a life support unit from Summa 112, according to the Plataforma de Rural Care Services (SAR).

This group of professionals has explained that a person went to the Arganda del Rey PAC on Saturday to request urgent assistance at a very close home for a young adult who was unconscious.

The SAR platform takes the opportunity to denounce that there was no doctor in the center for several days

There were no doctors at the PAC, two nursing professionals and two orderlies were on duty, and two of them, a nurse and an orderly, immediately went to attend to the emergency. At the home, where the local police also went, cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers began with a defibrillator and a few minutes later the Summa unit arrived, which continued with advanced resuscitation maneuvers for approximately 60 minutes, until they were suspended when the patient did not recover. pulse, so the death of the patient was confirmed.

Protest against “the chaos” of the emergencies in Madrid these past days

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The SAR Platform has indicated in a note reported by the Efe agency “the correct functioning of the emergency team”, although it has indicated that this patient had been unwell for days, according to the family, and in the PAC of Arganda the days 21, 22 and 24 there was no doctor. The platform wonders what would have happened if that person had received medical attention in the days before Saturday.

Upon spreading the news, regional government sources have specified to The vanguard that the death was not related to any lack of doctors, but that it occurred in a home and it was a cardiorespiratory arrest that the emergency teams could no longer reverse.

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The case is part of the conflict scenario that Madrid public health is experiencing. The SAR Platform has taken the opportunity to criticize that since the regional government launched the extra-hospital emergency plan, on October 27, the population is “disconcerted”, because they do not know if the corresponding emergency center is closed or open and whether or not they will have the necessary sanitary equipment.

“The lives of our patients are being played with, to whom we have tried to provide the best possible care, which implies not only healthcare in an emergency, but also emotional support for family members and relatives,” he stressed.

For the platform, the current out-of-hospital emergency plan, “imposed without taking into account the needs of citizens or the real possibilities of health professionals to provide adequate coverage for them, by not having complete equipment, is generating” a lack of equity” in “access” to “quality health care”.


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Extra-hospital emergencies have been closed since the start of the covid. In October, the community reopened 78 centers, adding primary and rural ones, in a way that the professionals judged unacceptable. They went on strike and there was a great march in the streets of the capital on the 13th.

On the 18th, the government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the professional unions agreed that 49 out-of-hospital emergency centers are fully equipped, including doctors. Health renounced another 29 centers to function, as they intended, without a doctor, only with the possibility of medical consultation by video call or not even that, a reorganization that should be finished applying.


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On the other hand, the protests of primary care doctors continue, in the strike called since the 21st. And, at the same time, there are discontinuous strikes called by three unions that ask to reorganize hospital emergencies.

IU Madrid has demanded tonight that an investigation into the death of Arganda be opened immediately, pointing out that if that person had gone to the emergency room and had been treated by a complete health team, perhaps today there would be no need to regret his death.

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