Earlier this month, a 3-year-old girl in Mexico was proclaimed dead twice when it was revealed she was still breathing at her burial.
According to El Universal San Luis Potos, Camila Roxana Martinez Mendoza’s family is now suing the hospital responsible for negligence.
Camila was brought to Salinas de Hidalgo Basic Community Hospital on August 17 for dehydration. The young girl was vomiting, having stomach pains, and had a temperature.
Camila was allegedly discharged from the hospital after being given paracetamol. Camila’s health deteriorated, and a private doctor advised her parents to re-admit her to the Salinas de Hidalgo Basic Community Hospital after his own treatments had failed.
Camila’s mom said that on her second visit, the hospital workers disregarded her little girl. They took a long time to give her oxygen and battled to give her intravenous fluids, according to her.
They didn’t put it on her since they couldn’t discover any veins in her body. Finally, a nurse took care of it, remarked Mary Jane Peralta
Camila was later moved to a closed room where Mary couldn’t approach her, according to the devastated mother. The doctors subsequently proclaimed the 3-year-old daughter deceased.
Peralta said that she could still feel her daughter hugging her before Camila was taken away.
She was still holding her as they carried her away and said, ‘You must let her rest in peace,’ Peralta remembered.
Peralta observed dampness on her daughter’s glass casket cover at Camila’s burial the next day. Other guests informed Peralta that Camila was hallucinating out of sadness and that she was still living.
Camila’s grandma then saw that her granddaughter’s eyes were moving. According to reports, the “dead” girl had a heart rate of 97 beats per minute.
Camila was subsequently brought to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead for the second time. Per the mother, her heart rate plummeted to 35 beats per minute in the ambulance.
Dehydration was indicated as the leading cause of death, followed by cerebral edema, or brain swelling.
She have no resentment toward the physicians who resorted to such severe [steps], Peralta said of the case. All she want is that the physicians, nurses, and directors be replaced so that this does not occur again.”
The case is now being investigated by the San Luis Potosi State Attorney General’s Office.
