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Rayan, Spanish Swine Flu Baby, Killed By Feeding Error
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by alia_d | July 13, 2009 at 03:40 pm
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Rayan, a Spanish baby who was was born prematurely before his mother, Dalila Mimouni, died from swine flu, was killed because of a feeding error by a staff member at Madrid's Gregorio Marañón hospital.
The child died Monday after a member of the nursing staff at the neonatal care unit of Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid fed the baby using the wrong technique, the hospital's managing director Antonio Barba told a news conference.
On Sunday night, the child was fed baby formula intravenously, rather than through a tube as should have been the case, Barba said.
An hour after the feeding, hospital staff became aware of the mistake and tried to clean the baby's blood, but could not save the child.
Until the tragic feeding error, Rayan was developing well in spite of his premature birth.
Seven-month-old Rayan was born on June 29, his mother's birthday, via Cesarean section because his 20-year-old Morrocan mother, Dalila Mimouni, was in a coma. Mimouni, who had been diagnosed as Spain's first victim of swine flu on June 16, died the next day. Before being diagnosed with swine flu, Mimouni visited hospitals in the Madrid area three times, only to be sent hope without an appropriate diagnosis or a prescription.
Rayan's father plans to charge the hospital for medical negligence. Various patients associations are also calling on the government of Madrid to open an investigation into the "medical negligence" leading to the tragic deaths of Rayan and his mother.
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