If the news of the death of little Rayán was left desolate due to an error in the administration of his diet, what the General Nursing Council declares today is doubly painful and outrageous. Rayán has not been the first baby to die for this same cause in Spain.
The statements of the president of the council, Máximo González Jurado, analyzed the causes of this event.
“Is this child's case an isolated event? Is it a repeatable fact that could have occurred in the past or is it an exceptional situation? I believe that the exceptional is the moment, because a new disease appears, a worldwide pandemic. The first person who dies in this country (from influenza A) is the mother of this child, therefore it requires different characteristics. ”
As he explained in 2000, an identical case occurred in the Canary Islands and this is the most overwhelming, that this type of errors can happen and not once. Hospital structures would have to take action, and have done so from the start, to make this simply impossible.
The nurse who administered the venous feeding was just over 20 years old and was in practice, alone in the department at that time, in which it was also the first day she worked. He has now been suspended from his duties cautiously and the court investigates the case.
The Nursing Council considers that in order for these things not to happen, the situation of professionals must be changed, who usually work with a shortage of staff and add that they will ask that their responsibilities be clearly ascertained, but also of those who must ensure the service in which he worked, and the judge must determine them.
Than Rayán was not the first It increases the anger about what happened and leaves open again the questions about the quality of the health care we receive and the protocols that are established to ensure that these errors are not committed.
