Chavez Ivan (Ivan Chavez)

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2022: Death due to medical error

In mid-April 2022, in Venezuela, a patient died after negligent surgeons left scissors in his stomach during an operation. Relatives of the deceased claim that doctors hid his true condition from them and tried to pretend that everything had gone without problems.

Ivan Chavez, 59, turned to the University Hospital of Maracaibo, the second largest city in Venezuela, for stomach surgery. The operation to remove the inflamed diverticle was recognized as successful, but shortly after the operation, the patient began to experience abdominal pain, it became difficult for him to eat and go to the toilet.

The surgeon forgot the scissors in the patient's stomach. He died

Doctors prescribed various treatments to Ivan Chavez. However, the discomfort did not pass, and four days after the operation, the medical staff decided to take an X-ray, then the medical staff found that the surgeons left scissors in the patient's stomach. Chavez underwent an emergency operation to extract scissors, which, again, was recognized as completely successful. But five days later, Chavez died, and his family reportedly blamed negligent surgeons for this.

The hospital's physician, Dr. Freddy Pachano Arenas, last week announced on a social network that his colleagues Gerardo Nunez and Louis Gomez were relieved of their positions after they were accused of the man's death. Pachano said it was impossible to accuse someone of premeditated murder when committing an action aimed at saving a person's life. Medical error is a bona fide misconception of the doctor, which does not have the corpus delicti and arises due to the imperfection of medicine.

It is not known whether Chavez's relatives intend to file a lawsuit against the surgeons who operated on him during both operations. Venezuela's health care system is believed to have been destroyed by a severe and prolonged economic crisis that began in 2013.^[1]

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