The president of the Social Security Institute (IPS), Dr. Vicente Bataglia, announced that a medical audit will be carried out in the social security system after the complaint of alleged malpractice in the case of a man who had his leg amputated. Likewise, Bataglia confirmed that the intervening doctors were removed from their positions during the investigation, but did not reveal their identities.
After a series of claims and complaints of alleged malpractice in the case of Ramón Samudio (78), who is now the president, now the president of the Institute, Vicente Bataglia, announced that a medical audit will be carried out in the company of the Superintendency of Health and also reported that the doctors involved in the first intervention were already separated from their positions while during the investigation.
Regarding the case of Mr. Ramón, the doctors had indicated to the next of kin that the aforementioned. The patient presented irreversible lesions in the right leg and required an amputation. However, once the surgery was completed, the man came out without the member Left.
In this regard, at the IPS press conference held this afternoon, Bataglia reiterated again that there was a “communication error” towards the relatives of Samudio and He pointed out that at the moment it is not possible to speak of malpractice in the case. “Faced with this unfortunate event, the Board of Directors took the necessary appropriate,” he stated. Continuing in his announcement of “measures”, the doctor specified that in addition to the audit and the separation of the positions of the doctors, they will also seek to “redefine and improve” communication protocols between doctors and relatives of patients, thus sustaining the social security position on a communicative error.
Likewise, Bataglia extended his solidarity to the relatives of Ramón Samudio and assured that in the IPS there are “open doors to resolve any conflict” and also he pointed out that the pension tends to be “attacked by many means”, which try to “tarnish the transparency” that the institution supposedly has.
For his part, the medical director of the IPS, Dr. Óscar Franco, participated in this conference with a brief intervention and in which he also maintained that the report provided to the relatives “was incomplete”, since the change plan had not been communicated. patient’s surgery.
In this case, the IPS authorities at no time provided the names of the doctors involved and who have already been removed from their duties. (Courtesy: ABC Color)