PSP police had to be called to Portimão Hospital on Tuesday morning (July 15) after a fight broke out between nurses and a Spanish doctor who is being accused of refusing to revive an elderly woman who ended up dying. The doctor has been suspended and the case is now under investigation, hospital boss Pedro Nunes confirmed to the Resident this morning.
It is alleged that the doctor’s refusal to help the victim, because he was “too busy”, led to a confrontation with two nurses from the hospital’s emergency room, and the PSP police had to be called to break up the fight.
According to a report by TVi channel, the nurses claim that they asked the doctor to help them revive the woman, in her 80s, who had just entered cardiac arrest, but were told by the doctor that he was “too busy” prescribing medication to another patient.
Another doctor was then called to carry out attempts at resuscitation, but it was too late and the patient died.
Hospital boss Pedro Nunes told the Resident that the doctor was sent home and suspended while the hospital investigates the circumstances of the death. If it is proven that the doctor did, in fact, refuse to revive the woman, Nunes guaranteed that he will be “fired” and that the hospital will present a “formal criminal complaint” against him.
“You cannot refuse to revive a patient,” the hospital chief said, adding that an investigation was still in place.
