The delay of more than six hours in the evacuation of the child and the decision to operate in Lanzarote despite the lack of vascular surgery professionals prevented the limb from being saved.
The Contentious-Administrative Chamber, First Section, of the High Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has ordered the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) to pay 500,000 euros plus legal costs to the parents of a minor from Lanzarote who suffered an accident with glass that severed an artery in one of his legs and whose prognosis and treatment resulted in him losing his leg.
According to the sentence, to which SER Lanzarote has had access, the events occurred in 2013 when the child, who was then 8 years old, was transferred to the Hospital Doctor José Molina Orosa in Arrecife, where, despite not having vascular surgery professionals in a Haemodynamics Unit, which the island lacked and still lacks today, it was decided to intervene "without even consulting a specialist in vascular surgery". Read more.
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