A lady has died within the north after being given the improper sort of blood throughout a transfusion.
The girl was named as 56-year-old Ayla Dalgalan, a retired instructor from Nicosia.
Her loss of life was introduced on Sunday by the Turkish Cypriot police, who defined that she had been in intensive care on the Close to East hospital exterior northern Nicosia earlier than passing away on Saturday night time.
The Close to East hospital themselves then made a press release, explaining that Dalgalan had been on the hospital’s intensive care unit for a complete of 12 days after having been transferred from one other hospital, already having acquired a transfusion of the improper blood.
It later emerged that Dalgalan had acquired the transfusion on the Thalassaemia Centre at northern Nicosia’s Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital.
The Cyprus Turkish Academics’ Union (Ktos) referred to as for the matter to be questioned, saying they “belief” that the Cyprus Turkish Medical Affiliation (KTTB) will examine what they referred to as “a suspicious state of affairs which value an individual’s life”.
Dalgalan’s kin introduced they’d take authorized motion, whereas the north’s Common Affected person Rights Affiliation (EHHD) stated they’re “prepared to supply all of the assist we will of their combat.”
They stated Dalgalan’s loss of life “isn’t just a results of a mistake or neglect on the a part of a member of employees, however a results of a series of issues at many phases of public well being providers.”
They added that because the north’s financial issues develop, individuals are turning at a better fee to public well being providers, however that “it has develop into apparent that public hospitals haven’t strengthened their infrastructure and personnel to the identical extent.”
“When the organisational problems and inadequacies on this nation’s healthcare system are mixed with an absence of laws to guard sufferers’ rights, a basic feeling of worry and mistrust in the direction of healthcare providers is created amongst society,” they stated.
They added that “nobody can really feel protected until sufferers’ rights are protected, and justice is served.”
One attainable supply for such a legislation within the north may very well be the European constitution of sufferers’ rights. The constitution features a whole of 14 rights and was written by the European Union in 2002 with a view to being a part of the “European Structure”, later watered down because the Lisbon Treaty.
The 14 rights outlined within the constitution embrace the appropriate of entry to healthcare and the rights to preventative measures, data, consent, free selection, privateness and confidentiality, respect of sufferers’ time, security, to complain, and to innovation, amongst others.
