Critical Case of Medical Negligence Leaves Man in Vegetative State in Bogotá Clinic: Family Seeks Justice

2024-03-01 04:01:46

Since January 20, 2024, Alexander Orjuela’s family has been experiencing an ordeal due to alleged medical negligence.

According to Diana Orjuela, the patient’s sister, to EL TIEMPO, “the man came in with gastritis pain” and, since then, he has been in a vegetative state for 40 days.

For now, relatives on social networks continue to denounce the incident, pray for a miracle and ask for a response from the authorities.

(You can read: Man was left in a vegetable state due to alleged medical negligence in a Bogotá clinic).

Alexander Orjuela arrived on January 20 at the Palermo Clinic, in Bogotá, due to severe pain in the pit of his stomach.

It took several hours for Orjuela to be attended to and, in the midst of desperation, her brothers asked for attention.

However, “after five hours they applied medication without asking him if he was allergic or not,” as Diana Orjuela told EL TIEMPO.

Unfortunately, the substance they injected him with was dipyrone, used in Colombia as a painkiller and to which Alexander Orjuela would be allergic, according to his sister.

Shortly after the application, the patient had anaphylactic shock that caused respiratory arrest for 12 minutes.

Furthermore, Diana Orjuela said: “They told us that my brother was going to be handed over with a brain death.”

“At this moment he is not breathing on his own, as he is using a ventilator,” said Orjuela. Also, “they told us that they are reaching an agreement with the Sura Health Promotion Entity (EPS) to take him to a health center.” rehabilitation and after that they will hand him over to us.

Alleged medical negligence in a Bogotá clinic.

Photo:

Diana Orjuela / iStock.

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How is the process going?

Counting this Thursday, it is already 40 days in which Alexander Orjuela is in a vegetative state.

EL TIEMPO managed to establish contact on the night of February 29 with Oscar Orjuela, the patient’s brother, and pointed out that there is no type of improvement and the clinic would reiterate that it is better to take him to a chronic rehabilitation center.

On the other hand, the family member commented that they have already put in place “a guardianship so that he is not transferred” and are requesting reports of everything they did to him when they filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office.

GERALDINE BAJONEOR VÁSQUEZ
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