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The results of histopathological and toxicological tests are expected to shed "light" on the causes of death of the 43-year-old man who in the morning of April 1 left his last breath on a chair outside the emergency room of the Papanikolaou Hospital of Thessaloniki, shortly after he had been discharged from the hospital.
As the technical advisor of the victim's family, Dimitris Galenteris, told protothema.gr, the mechanism of death is still under investigation and the autopsy revealed the suspicion of pulmonary embolism. However, the results of the histopathological and toxicological tests are what will form a complete picture.
"The fact is that the man left the hospital and was allowed to return home without a diagnosis of his condition,"[/I] stresses the experienced forensic doctor, explaining that in no case is it foreseen by the protocol of the ICU that the patient can leave the hospital without a diagnosis, let alone since the 43-year-old insisted that he was in pain and in need of medical care.
Hospital's report to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Health
According to protothema.gr, the hospital "Papanikolaou" is expected to deliver a detailed report to the Ministry of Health and the 3rd Health Region, explaining what happened on Friday night and Saturday, April 2. According to the record made in the books of the ICU, it appears that the patient was admitted and that the doctors considered that he was not suffering from any problem, nor were there any reasons for further examinations. Therefore, they asked him to leave, resulting in him ending up two hours later in the hospital chair.
Meanwhile, the "Papanicolaou" management has requested that the on-call schedules be checked and has launched an internal investigation into the death incident.
"He died at 2 in the morning, they found him at 11:30 in the morning" says the brother of the 43-year-old
[/P]As reported in protothema.gr his brother, Andreas Kampakas, who describes the last two hours of the unfortunate 43-year-old's life, no one expected that from the pains he felt that day in his leg, he would end up being seen in the hospital morgue for identification.
"They didn't even take his blood pressure or measure his oxygen. In such an event, the saturation he was feeling would have shown. His lungs could not have turned over that much, as our technical advisor Dimitris Galenteris says, in such a short period of time. If they saw the saturation they would have understood that they had to give him oxygen."
The chronicle of the 43-year-old's death
It all happened on the evening of Friday, April 1, when Menelaos Kampakas started suffering from leg pains. He immediately alerted his brother Andreas, who was outside Thessaloniki.
"It is tragic what we are living through and what has happened, because my brother left really helpless, as no one paid attention to him. He called an ambulance to be taken to the emergency room and ended up a few hours later, when he was found dead, being put in a bag," he says indignantly, adding: "Menelaos felt unbearable pain in his leg. He called me around 10:30 p.m. and informed me. I told him to call an ambulance because I was out at the time and to go to the hospital. Indeed at 23:00 he called 911 and half an hour later they picked him up and took him to the Papanikolaou hospital
around 23:45. There a surgeon examined him and said "you're fine, you're leaving". This according to the papers signed by the doctor happens at 12:30. But he was in pain, he knew something was wrong and he tells the doctor "I'm not leaving". Instead of initiating procedures and running tests on him, the doctor saw fit to call the hospital security guard to take him out."
With the pain still intense, the 43-year-old manages to get out of the emergency room, but refuses to leave the hospital: "He and the security guard left the emergency room, but my brother didn't want to leave the hospital, so he sat in a chair outside. Finally, where he was sitting, he died around 2:00 in the morning, according to the technical consultant coroner we have appointed Dimitris Galenteris. The important thing is that he was found dead around 11:30 the next morning. I wonder how many hours no one came by to see him or no one paid attention to him?"
The 43-year-old had no health problems. "Menelaos had no health problems, but apparently we lost him to thrombosis. He was 43 years old and could have been saved. I learned of his death when I was called by the police to go for identification. After six hours we were allowed to see him because he was found post-mortem, they say, positive for coronavirus. By the skin of their teeth they let us in and we saw him and finally on a prosecutor's paper a re-test for the virus was ordered. The hospital didn't want to retest him, so the prosecutor ordered him removed from the hospital. The new test five days later showed that he did not have coronavirus."
As Andreas Kampakas explains, the 43-year-old had not had time to create a family of his own, while he loved nature. He worked for me, I had him close to me. He liked to take his bike and go to the mountains and sit on it. He was a man of company, good food and nature. No one deserves that ending."[/I]
Source: Proto Thema
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