There is no consolation for the parents and friends of Mar, an 18-year-old girl. They charge that the girl died after being misdiagnosed medically. Mar lived in Cádiz, Spain, where she dreamed of becoming a hospital worker. I wanted to become a nurse.

“She was a healthy girl, sporty and full of life,” Estefanía, Mar’s mother, told Nius.

The young woman’s death occurred six months ago, time the family has spent analyzing what happened and pointing out an alleged medical negligence.

At the moment they denounce “the Andalusian health service for the lack of medical care”. After being misdiagnosed, he deteriorated and died within 48 hours.

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It wasn’t a middle ear infection

In the early morning of September 18, Mar passed out as she entered the bathroom of her home. Her mother points out that they awoke when they heard the young woman’s thud as she fell to the floor.

Due to the urgency of the case, she was transferred “to the La Longuera Health Center in Chiclana, where she was referred to the Clinical Hospital of Puerto Real.”

“It went wrong from the start,” the mother recalls.

His daughter was diagnosed with otitis media. He died of a stroke and no one could discover it, Estefanía complains

“They looked at his ear and gave him a pain-relieving serum. They discharged him with otitis,” he says 20 minutes.

Estefanía says that “the first doctor who saw her in Chiclana did not specify, but said that the neurological examination was not good and referred her directly to Puerto Real, to the hospital.”

At that new spa, “they looked at her ear, they gave her a treatment to get rid of her headaches and dizziness, and they sent her home with a treatment.”

The mother describes that her “girl” was peeing at the time and “couldn’t walk”.

They asked me “whether the girl was not speaking or was she like that and I said she couldn’t talk because she was sick”. And he points out that the ENT doctor saw the “perfect” ears.

He says Mar had “convulsions, a low level of consciousness, stiffness in the lower extremities, profuse sweating” and an inability to stand or control sphincter muscles.

As time passed, “it got worse, he couldn’t even express what was wrong with him.”

They said he was a “puppeteer”, but he had a stroke

According to Estefanía, the girl was having so many convulsions that the stretcher was shaking.

“But the doctor told them she was shivering (shivering) with chills, she explains.

When he recalls those moments, he claims “it was inhuman”.

What they saw in Mar was not normal and so the family started to put pressure on doctors and nurses. The mother told the Spanish press that she called a health worker “my relative.”

He went to the hospital to see Mar and says he noticed great concern in him.

I don’t understand how this girl didn’t have a head CT scan, she said.

“In the end, they agreed to do a CT scan of the head,” which showed “thrombosis with stroke in a very serious condition,” says Nius.

It was with this diagnosis that they referred her to Puerta del Mar Hospital. Time was lost, Mar deteriorated and died on September 20, 2022.

Painfully, the mother says she doesn’t know if she would have been saved if the circumstances had been different and she thinks: “They didn’t even give her a chance” (…)

With the family’s demand to the Andalusian health service, they are trying for others to experience the same as they suffered with Mar. “It took her 48 hours to die,” Estefanía laments.