A five-year-old girl had health problems because of anaesthesia at a private dental clinic in Paterna. The same anaesthesiologist who sedated the six-year-old girl who died on November 20th after being treated at a clinic in Alzira and another four-year-old girl who was hospitalised.
The day before the incident with the other two youngsters, the five-year-old girl was treated at a clinic in Paterna. She had to go to the hospital because of problems with the anaesthesia, which the National Police verified to EFE.
After a dental treatment on November 20th, a 6-year-old child died, and another girl was hospitalised for several days at the Clinical Hospital of Valencia. The police are still looking into what happened at the Alzira clinic.
The anaesthesiologist, who worked at numerous places, was let go on December 4th with some safety precautions, as the Civil and Instruction Section of the Court of First Instance number 5 of Alzira agreed. He had been arrested the day before for manslaughter.
The court said that the Public Prosecutor’s Office’s request for provisional custody didn’t meet the requirements since she didn’t see a risk of flight (the inmate had enough ties to Spain) or a risk of destruction of evidence.
The 43-year-old man will have to go to court on a regular basis. His passport has also been taken away, so he can’t leave the country.
The anaesthesiologist is being looked at for manslaughter due to professional negligence, injuries due to professional negligence, theft, and failure to provide help. This is an open case, and the inquiry may lead to more charges being filed.
At the same time, the 50-year-old proprietor of the private dental clinic in Alzira is being charged with failing to help and harming public health.
The Ministry of Health said that this private dental clinic is not allowed to use anaesthesia procedures, such the intravenous medicines that were given to the youngster, because it only has permission to “administer local anaesthetics without further authorisation.”
A six-year-old girl was brought to the Emergency Department of the Hospital de la Ribera on November 20th, just before 5 p.m., in cardiorespiratory arrest. She had been treated that same morning at a private dental clinic, and the doctors tried to resuscitate her but were unsuccessful.
Earlier, at 3:11 p.m., another girl, four years old, who had also been seen that morning at the same dental clinic, had gone to the same hospital with an episode of fever, vomiting and drowsiness and was transferred to the Clinical Hospital of Valencia, where she was treated in the paediatric ICU, and was discharged several days later.
Author: Derek Appleton
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