On July 21, talking to a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, Mr. Nguyen Ba Can - Acting Director of the Department of Health of Thanh Hoa province said that regarding the patient's death at Thanh Hoa Provincial General Hospital, the Department had request this hospital to report the incident.
"Currently, the hospital has a report, however, the Department is still asking the hospital Director to participate to clarify this incident further" - Mr. Can said.
Also according to Mr. Can, after having a detailed report on the incident, the Department will summarize and establish a professional council to evaluate the process of welcoming, monitoring and handling cases of patient death; Handle violations (if any) according to regulations.
"The Department's viewpoint is objective, not defending anyone but working in the most objective way" - Mr. Can informed.
Previously, as Lao Dong reported, on July 20, a clip longer than 4 minutes appeared on social networks, recording a scene of a patient's family being upset about the delay in welcoming and treating patients at the center. emergency room at Thanh Hoa Provincial General Hospital, causing the patient to die.
The content in the video shows that a woman used her phone to record images in the emergency room and said angrily: "I took my mother to the emergency room, but for 40 to 50 minutes the officials and doctors did not care." , only when the patient is in critical condition do we send someone to the emergency room."
According to the video content, this woman reacted strongly to people wearing white shirts and security guards at the emergency area. Immediately after the above clip was posted on social networks, it attracted many people's interest and comments.
Regarding the above incident, Thanh Hoa Provincial General Hospital made an initial announcement about the incident. According to the announcement, patient NTM (64 years old, residing in Trieu Son district) entered the hospital at 9:50 p.m. on July 19. Patient M. has kidney failure (end stage) and has been undergoing dialysis 3 times a week for more than 2 years at Thanh Hoa Provincial General Hospital.
On July 19, the patient's dialysis cycle at the Kidney Dialysis Center, shift 4, ended at nearly 9:00 p.m. the same day and was taken home by his family. On the way home, the patient felt tired, had back pain and difficulty breathing and was taken back to the hospital by his family.
"Patient M entered the Emergency Center at 9:50 p.m. in a state of fatigue, chest tightness, difficulty breathing, and was urgently examined by Dr. Le Duc Son and the on-duty team, who measured his blood pressure, did an electrocardiogram, and gave him oxygen through his glasses. , invite a cardiologist and nephrologist to consult, and complete medical record procedures according to regulations" - The notice stated.
Also according to the Notice, while completing medical record procedures, at about 10:25 p.m. the patient had severe chest pain and had an electrocardiogram repeated at 10:28 p.m., showing signs of myocardial infarction.
At 10:30 p.m., the patient had a sudden cardiac arrest and was given emergency circulatory arrest (for 1 hour and 30 minutes) but was unsuccessful. The patient died at 0:00 on July 20
"Diagnosis at death: Circulatory arrest due to acute myocardial infarction/end-stage chronic kidney failure while on dialysis" - the hospital announcement stated.
