Overview

• The Juzgado de lo Penal número 2 de Alicante found two doctors guilty of homicide by serious negligence for the death of eight-year-old Aitor following five emergency visits without proper appendicitis testing.
• The Hospital General de Elda pediatrician received a two-year prison term and 3½-year disqualification while the family doctor was sentenced to one year and barred from practice for three years.
• The court ordered insurers and the Conselleria de Sanidad to pay over €146,000 in civil compensation to Aitor’s grandparents and legal guardians.
• A separate trial for a pediatrician and nurse accused of causing a 2019 infant death in Albacete was postponed to September due to the hospitalization of a key witness.
• That case alleges a fatal embolism resulted when activated charcoal was mistakenly administered through the wrong catheter route.