Story today about an unfortunate man who was in a bad motorbike accident entering the small town of Vergara in the Treinta y Tres area.
He was taken to the small clinic in town but needed more care than they could provide so they planned to send him to the hospital in Treinta y Tres. Unfortunately there was no one there to take or read the necessary X rays so he was sent to Melo 110 kilometres away.
It took 7 hours according to his brother before they had a diagnosis of bi lateral hip fractures and a fractured spine. The patient was left lying in an ambulance in the street for one hour and forty minutes while they tried to find a hospital with an intensive care unit that could take him. The hospital in Tacuarembó could not take him so he was sent to Montevideo but part of the way there, the transfer was cancelled due to lack of a bed in the hospital there and he was returned to Treinta y Tres where he is now.
Keep in mind that a friend of mine then had to wait 10 days before getting surgery for a fractured hip so hopefully he won't have to wait that long.
http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/pasearon-centros-salud-grave.html
He was taken to the small clinic in town but needed more care than they could provide so they planned to send him to the hospital in Treinta y Tres. Unfortunately there was no one there to take or read the necessary X rays so he was sent to Melo 110 kilometres away.
It took 7 hours according to his brother before they had a diagnosis of bi lateral hip fractures and a fractured spine. The patient was left lying in an ambulance in the street for one hour and forty minutes while they tried to find a hospital with an intensive care unit that could take him. The hospital in Tacuarembó could not take him so he was sent to Montevideo but part of the way there, the transfer was cancelled due to lack of a bed in the hospital there and he was returned to Treinta y Tres where he is now.
Keep in mind that a friend of mine then had to wait 10 days before getting surgery for a fractured hip so hopefully he won't have to wait that long.
http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/pasearon-centros-salud-grave.html
