A(H1N1) widower complains about hospital treatment

A(H1N1) widower complains about hospital treatment
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By h.b. - Jul 2, 2009 - 6:55 AM

Minister for Heaalth, Trinidad Jimenez - EFE

28 week pregnant Dalilah was turned away from three hospital emergency departments, despite being so weak she could hardly walk

Mohamed, the widower of the 20 year old Moroccan woman to die from the A(H1N1) virus in Madrid earlier this week, has announced that he will be taking legal action against the hospital who attended to her, the Gregorio Marañón.

He and his 28 week pregnant wife were turned away from the Emergency department there and at a hospital in Fuenlabrada a total of three times, given Paracetamol and antibiotics for her ever progressing fever. When she was treated it was in a ‘cold’ way, he claims. A baby boy was born by caesarian section the day before his mother died.

It follows a statement from the Minister for Health, Trinidad Jiménez, who claimed that Dalilah was an asthmatic, something also denied by the family. The Madrid Health Service say the doctors treatment was correct.

Dalilah’s funeral takes place in Morocco today.

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