The vice minister of Warranty of the Quality of Public health, Jose Matosreceived this Monday in his office staff from the Arroyo Hondo Diagnostic Medical Center (Cediah), as part of the research about him death of the patient Pamela Almánzar, who died on December 27 after undergoing a cosmetic surgical procedure in said location.
“We were informed of a case and we immediately moved everything necessary to investigate the circumstances under which the death of that lady occurred,” said Matos.
The doctor explained that “that process is in development.” “We summon the actors; They were here, we talked, we have the recordwhich we are analyzing from a medical point of view.
He clarified that, for the interview“the medical director, the anesthesiologist, the cardiologist came,” and it was not considered “prudent for him to come Edgar Contreras“.
“At the time we are going to summon him; we wanted to have first-rate information. We decided that he would not participate so that we could have the information without any type of bias,” he added.
Dr. Contreras is a surgeon singled out for multiple accusations of negligence medical and deaths since 1998. According to Almánzar’s relatives, who went to Cediah on December 16 to undergo breast reduction surgery, she was reportedly convinced by the doctor to also undergo an abdominoplasty and liposuction on her arms and legs.
The doctor also appears as president of the Board of Directors of the Cediah.
They wait for results of the necropsy
Vice Minister Matos expressed that, “in the evaluation that was carried out on the patient prior to the procedure, everything is normal.” “The patient died 12 days later. There are complications in every surgical procedure; there may be complications that are immediate and some that are delayed.”
Health authorities are awaiting the results of the necropsy that the Institute of Forensic Pathology is preparing for Almánzar to give the diagnosis definitive of the reason why the patient died. In it record that handles is contained informed consent and each of the steps signed before surgery.
“When we have results of Forensic Pathologythen we do bring the doctor Edgar Contreras; We sat down with him, we talked, because we, from the Ministry of Public health and in a very particular way for this Vice Ministry, we have the particularity that, when some of these events occur, we look for measures to prevent them from continuing to happen,” commented Matos.
He highlighted that Cediah was not closed completely, only “the surgical areas, until we have the results of the necropsy and the decision is made to keep it closed or open.
Matos assured that this is how the protocol usual for this type of complaints. The Vice Ministry that he presides, in the last year has received between four and five complaints of centers that have been intervened for similar reasons, two of them closed until they demonstrate that they are up to date with the authorization regulations.
Visit to Cediah
Upon noticing the presence of several mediathe staff of Cediah proceeded to lock the main door that leads to the reception of the medical center.
Through the glass, Free Diary He was able to observe from the outside the presence of patients waiting for a turn to be treated, thus confirming the statements issued by the Ministry of Health that the clinic continued to operate as usual, since only the operating rooms were ordered to close.
