The lawsuit was filed following the death of an 82-year-old man who remained in the emergency room for 40 hours. The CGT also links the saturation to the deaths of two other patients, aged 92 and 93, on December 13, who waited between 58 and 70 hours for care.
“"They are doing this to gain notoriety."
Intersindical stated in a press release that the saturation is “chronic, known, and denounced daily.” The organization claims that between 20 and 40 patients exceed the 24-hour waiting limit daily, which increases the risk of human error and hospital mortality.
The unions criticize that the most affected groups are the vulnerable, especially the elderly. A profile on the X network reporting on the emergency status indicated that on Monday, 230 patients were waiting, with 61 exceeding 24 hours and some reaching 114 hours of waiting time.
The hospital’s emergency capacity is 110 patients, yet figures often range between 160 and 200. Hospital sources, however, deny that the deceased patient was unattended, assuring that he was “within the medical circuit” but presented a complex clinical picture.
