Overview
- A Seville administrative court ordered the Andalusian Health Service to pay €283,612 plus interest and costs to the family of a man who died in 2021 after inadequate COVID-19 emergency care, and the service has appealed.
- The ruling found a breach of the lex artis after the patient was discharged on March 23, 2021 with only paracetamol despite a doubtful chest X‑ray and no complementary tests, later returning with bilateral pneumonia and dying on April 5 at Hospital de Valme.
- In Ciudad Real, the Castilla‑La Mancha health service agreed to pay €160,000 to the parents of Valeria, a newborn who died in 2013 after more than five hours without proper fetal monitoring, ignored signs of hypotonía and hipoactividad, and an incorrectly placed intubation that damaged her lungs.
- The Ciudad Real judgment noted that a simple chest radiograph would have exposed the misplaced tube; the infant was transferred to Hospital La Mancha Centro and died after a cardiorespiratory arrest.
- Both families pursued their claims with the patient‑rights association El Defensor del Paciente, whose legal representatives handled the Seville case and negotiated the Ciudad Real payout.