The Criminal Court Number 1 of Arrecife has acquitted a doctor accused of acting negligently in the care of a baby of 19 months who died in 2019 after going to the Emergency Room of the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital.
The health worker had been accused by the Prosecutor's Office and by the private prosecution of a crime of reckless homicide. The baby, born in Poland, was admitted to the hospital in Lanzarote on December 26, 2019 at 9:00 in the morning after being referred from a health center in Playa Blanca. At first, she was diagnosed with acute bronchitis. The doctor prescribed a treatment and discharged her the same day.
However, the next day she returned to the health center because her condition had worsened, this time she was diagnosed with sepsis and respiratory infection and referred back to the hospital. Finally, in the early morning of December 28, she died with severe pneumonia in her left lung.
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