Wrong medicine case

[NewsWhore]

The two children who survived being given the wrong medicine at the Dario Contreras Hospital earlier this week are recovering. Three nurses and two pharmacy employees were suspended after dispensing potassium chloride instead of distilled water to dissolve another pharmaceutical, leading to the death of a two-year old and complications in two other children who had to be admitted to the intensive care unit. The mothers were present when the lethal medicines were injected. The deceased child had been hospitalized for a second time for head injuries after being run over by a motorcycle, but the wrong medication didn't give him any chance of recovering. Deputy Minister of Public Health Jose Rodriguez Aybar said that it was a case of human error and negligence. "No medicine should be given without reading the label," he said, adding that a lot of pharmaceuticals have similar packaging. He said that measures would be taken to prevent this from happening again in any public hospital. He said the hospitals were there to solve problems, not to create them. Lawyer Eric Raful, interviewed by Huchi Lora on his CDN talk show, said that the parents were unlikely to be able to sue the hospital for damages.

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