Moroccan woman is Spain's first swine flu death

[Shiloh]

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Spain-reports-first-swine-flu-death/articleshow/4720069.cms

Moroccan woman is Spain's first swine flu death
30 Jun 2009, 1511 hrs IST, AFP

MADRID: A 20-year-old Moroccan woman has died at a Madrid hospital, becoming Spain's first swine flu fatality, the Gregorio Maranon hospital
announced on Tuesday.

The woman, who suffered from asthma
, died at dawn of a respiratory illness provoked by the A(H1N1) flu, said a health ministry statement.

The woman, who was seven-months pregnant when she arrived at the hospital, had been receiving treatment for several days.

When her condition deteriorated Monday, doctors carried out a Caesarean delivery of the baby, who was in good health and unaffected by the virus, said the ministry statement.

"Health minister Trinidad Jimenz will give a press conference to announce the death of the young woman," said a hospital spokeswoman.

According to the latest health ministry figures, issued on Tuesday, 717 people have been infected with the A(H1N1) virus in Spain since it first appeared.

One other patient is being treated in a hospital in Catalonia, northwest Spain, and is in a serious condition.

Spain was the first European country to confirm a case of the A(H1N1) virus.

The latest global figures issued by the World Health Organisation on Monday gave the number of recorded swine flu cases as 70,893 worldwide, with 311 deaths, since the outbreak started in late March.

But some countries are no longer keeping track of all cases recorded.

And US health officials have said that while their official figures record 27,717 cases including 127 deaths, the real figure was probably at least a million -- 50 times more than actually reported.

 

[thebes]

Re: Moroccan woman is Spain's first swine flu death

Three serious cases follow Swine Flu death in Spain
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By h.b. - Jun 30, 2009 - 7:02 PM
Minister for Health, Trinidad Jimenez at the press conference on Tuesday - EFE
It follows the death of the 20 year old Moroccan woman in Madrid on Tuesday

Speaking to the press on Tuesday, the Spanish Minister for Health, Trinidad Jim?nez, said that she wanted to send a message of calm to the population.

It came following the death of the first person in Spain with the A(H1N1) virus, although the Minister said that the 20 year old Moroccan woman, Dalila, died from a respiratory illness, and was also a sufferer from asthma. A caesarean section was performed on Monday to bring her son into world at 28 weeks.

The Minister insisted that all the correct measures were taken, and noted that the normal flu was causing more deaths currently than the Swine virus.

There are now three serious cases of the virus across the country. An eight year old boy who suffers from Angelman syndrome, and a 35 woman in Madrid, and the 32 year old man who remains admitted to hospital in Tarragona.

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_22096.shtml

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Moroccan woman is Spain's first swine flu death

Source: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/...on-of-spains-first-swine-flu-victim-dies.html

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:56:42 GMT

Madrid - The premature son of Spain's first H1N1 influenza victim has died in Madrid, hospital sources said Monday. Dalilah Mimouni, 20, died on June 30 following an emergency Caesarian section seven months into her pregnancy. Officials said that baby Rayan had not been infected with H1N1.

Mimouni's family has threatened to sue two Spanish hospitals which initially failed to diagnose her disease.

Two people have died in Spain of the disease, popularly known as swine flu.

 

[wotan]

Re: Moroccan woman is Spain's first swine flu death

The poor baby has died:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/13/swine-flu-victim-baby-spain

Nurse accidentally kills premature son of swine flu victim in Spain

? 'Ghastly error' as milk is put into vein, not stomach
? Mother had died after four separate visits to hospital

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• Giles Tremlett in Madrid
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 13 July 2009 21.29 BST
• Article history

A wave of indignation swept around Spain after hospital negligence provoked the death of a premature baby born to a young Moroccan immigrant who was the first person in the country to die of swine flu.
The baby, Rayan, died just 14 days after his 20-year-old mother, Dalilah Mimouni, because a milk solution that should have been fed into his stomach via a tube was attached instead to a drip into a vein.

When I first heard the death was due to mistakenly being fed via IV I was afraid that the above item in bold is what happened. I can't begin to fathom how horrible a death that must have been.

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Moroccan woman is Spain's first swine flu death

Source: http://www.laprensagrafica.com/el-s...-por-error-medico-bebe-de-victima-gripe-.html

Google translation:
Spain: in error doctor dies baby flu victim

The death of a baby due to the administration of feeding via intravenous rather than through a nasogastric tube.
Written by (Reuters) MADRID, July 13

Monday, 13 July 2009 17:46

The baby of the couple two weeks ago became the first fatality of influenza A H1N1 in Spain has died from a medical error, officials said Monday's Gregorio Maranon hospital in Madrid where he was interned.


The baby was born last June 29 by caesarean section, a day before the death of his mother, Dalila Mimuni after only 28 weeks of gestation. Since then he was in the Intensive Care Unit of the Gregorio Maranon hospital in Madrid.


The managing director of the clinic, Antonio Barba, said the baby's death was a terrible mistake because the doctor administered by intravenous feeding, rather than through a nasogastric tube.


"As a consequence of a terrible error vocational nursing center has confused a medication in Dalila's son and as a result, the child has died," said Beard in a press conference of urgency.


The manager also noted that the hospital would assume all responsibilities.


The advisor of Health Madrid, Juan Jos? G? Juemes, said it had taken four steps after learning of the death of the baby.


First, acknowledge the error in a transparent, then remove from their duties a precautionary measure after two professionals serving the baby in the neonatal intensive care unit, then open an investigation and send the case to court on duty, he said.


The person who attended the baby was "fully qualified to perform the tasks that were mandated in the intensive care unit of neonatology," said G? Juemes to the station RNE, who asked not to speculate and await the findings of the investigation.


The Spanish Government expressed regret at the death and sent a message to the family.


"Mourns the loss of your baby, we tried to save his life from the first moment. Back to relocate his family, especially his father, our deepest sympathy and try to support you in everything they need," said the minister of Health, Trinidad Jimenez, during a news conference.


Last Thursday a man of 41 years died in Gran Canaria because of complications from influenza A H1N1, becoming the second died in Spain because of the disease, widely known as swine flu.
According to the latest data available from the Ministry of Health on Friday, the number of confirmed cases of the new strain of influenza A in Spain is 1034.
While most moves in a positive way or has already passed the disease, there are serious cases in Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia, Asturias, the Canary Islands and Galicia.
In the world have been detected around 104,000 cases and approximately 470 deaths. More than 11,000 of those infected are in the European Union.