Tongling, Anhui Province, Xu Mou because of stomach upset, to the town health center for a few days to play the bottle, the results of less than half an hour after returning home, Xu Mou died. The family viewed the health center monitoring found that the day for Xu played the bottle, but is the health center of a nurse's husband. The family asked to pursue the responsibility of the relevant personnel and claim compensation, but the hospital said, Xu died in his own home, does not belong to the medical malpractice.
It is reported that the deceased Xu is a 95-year-old, just 25 years old this year. But their family of five people, four have disabilities, including Xu, belonging to a difficult family. The other day Xu felt sick to his stomach, so he went to the town's only health center to see a doctor. The doctor gave Xu an infusion treatment. On the first and second days, Xu took three hours to finish four bottles and had no adverse reactions. On the third day he took only one hour to finish four bottles, so the family suspected that the infusion was too fast and caused the heart to withstand and die.
The hospital tried to delete the day's surveillance after the incident, but police were able to remove the video in time. The hospital leadership also said that Xu died at home, not medical malpractice, suggesting that the family go through the legal process. The government department where the health center is located to various reasons not to accept the relevant interviews, health management department said things are under investigation. Xu's father said he would consider overcoming any difficulties to get back for his son's death.
It is understood that a bottle of 250 ml of suspension normally takes about one hour to infuse, depending on age, physical condition and the specific condition of the disease. Nurse Chen's husband entered a total of about 500ml of medicine for Xu that day, plus the time to change the bottle, the normal time should be two hours to two and a half hours, apparently a little fast. This, coupled with the fact that Chen's husband was involved in the patient's IV injection without nursing qualifications, is likely to have resulted in misuse or mishandling.
Whether the infusion was too fast for the heart to withstand, or whether Nurse Chen's husband's improper operation led to Xu's death, or whether there was another reason for Xu's death, all of these need to wait for the authoritative organization to get the conclusion after the autopsy. But the involvement of non-medical personnel in the patient's treatment is clearly not in line with the rules of medical institutions.
China has 36,000 township health centers at all levels, which are an important part of the three-tier rural health care network, working with independent clinics and maternity and child care centers to form a health care network that covers a wide range of rural areas, and is the main institution where township farmers go to see a doctor and get medication. In the past, the medical staff of township health centers or health centers in remote areas were mainly rural "barefoot" doctors who knew a little about medicine, and there were no nurses. At that time, the township health centers basically did not have medical equipment, and the medicine used for treatment was simple western medicine with Chinese herbs, which could only treat simple diseases like headache and fever.
With the rapid development of China's economy, the state attaches more and more importance to public ****health undertakings, especially township-level health centers, not only are the doctors served by university graduates with some experience, but also nurses with certified qualifications are equipped according to the size of the township's population. The facilities of health centers have also been greatly improved, with more complete equipment for basic medical care, beds set up so that patients can be kept in the hospital for observation and treatment, and medicines more plentiful than before. Common diseases can be effectively treated in such hospitals, while serious and difficult cases can only be treated in key provincial and municipal hospitals.
Because of factors such as geographic location and transportation, many people living in rural areas are forced to choose township hospitals for treatment when they are sick. However, due to the relatively unstandardized and strict management of township hospitals, which are not equipped with testing equipment such as X-ray machines and nuclear magnetic **** vibration, coupled with the lack of experience of doctors here in dealing with difficult and miscellaneous illnesses, often resulting in misdiagnosis or misdiagnosis of treatment, which has brought a lot of trouble to the hospitals and the families of the patients.
Last March, a county in Henan Province, Zhang Moumou due to abdominal pain, to a town center hospital, the doctor diagnosis identified as acute cholecystitis, and told Zhang Moumou hanging 6, 7 days on the bottle, Zhang Moumou stayed in the hospital to play the bottle. The first bottle to half, Zhang Moumou abdominal pain, so the nurse increased the amount of medicine, the results of the second bottle, he has appeared unconscious, during this period, doctors and nurses have not asked the patient's situation. Waiting to accompany Zhang's relatives to call the county hospital 120 emergency vehicle, he has no vital signs. After review, the town's central hospital in the process of saving Zhangmoumou there are many faults, was awarded compensation of 400,000 yuan by the court to the family.
So only by strengthening the management and training of primary health care workers can we reduce the number of similar tragedies and reassure more people about seeing a doctor.
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