The family of the unfortunate 42-year-old Maria Aksou, who last Friday, March 25, breathed her last at the Larnaca General Hospital, made a complaint to the police.
As reported in previous publications, the family claims that there was a delay in the admission of the unfortunate woman to the First Aid Department.
It is noted that the complaint made today after the funeral of the woman, who is survived by her husband and six children, does not concern medical negligence but a delay in her examination.
As we know, the unfortunate woman passed away before she could be examined.
Her husband Panagiotis complained to the Cyprus Times yesterday that he took his wife to the emergency room of the Larnaca General Hospital with high blood pressure and asked to be admitted there immediately for examination, but by the time they checked her safepass and before she was examined she unfortunately died.
In statement issued yesterday by the OKYPY, however, stated that a Safepass is not required and not requested in order to receive a medical examination.
This is the Agency's announcement:
A safe pass is not required and not requested for visits to Accident and Emergency Departments (AEDs) in order to receive a medical examination. Patients who declare that they are covid-19 positive or have symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 infection will be examined in a different location. All other patients shall receive a medical examination and if they are deemed to require admission, a rapid detection test shall be performed. According to the attending physicians of the Larnaca General Hospital's ICU, at the time of the patient's arrival, there was no other patient in the waiting room, she registered at 18:45 and immediately lost consciousness. There was an immediate response from the Medical and Nursing staff, she was examined by a Cardiologist, received intubation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, where despite the superhuman efforts made by the staff, unfortunately the patient did not recover and died. We express our sincere condolences to the family and assure them that the incident will be investigated.
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