The inspection findings of the Ministry of Health regarding the death of journalist Vladimir Matijanić, according to which covid is to blame for the death, and there were no major omissions on the part of doctors and medical staff, was commented for N1 by doctor Miranda Mrsić. The commission explained its decision for two hours.
The commission explained its decision for two hours. No one is to blame, and all the doctors from yesterday’s press conference said that Matijanic should have been hospitalized. They believe that Matijanic should have come alone because he had a referral to the emergency room.
“Yesterday’s press did not answer the three key questions asked by experts, the family, the public – why was he not admitted to the hospitalsecond, why didn’t someone give it an honest review and third, why the searches that should have been done were not done.
The moment you cross the threshold of the hospital, you already have an EKG and an X-ray of the lungs, if that had been done, the situation would have been completely different and the late Matijanić would still have had a chance to try to sell covid and severe complications”, commented Mrsić.
He says he would not ask his colleagues from the commission anything. “I shouldn’t ask them anything, everything is clear from their presentation. Every colleague of mine who sat there was embarrassed because he had to say something that goes against ethics, with expertise, with everything we swore to when we became doctors, which is to help the patient.”
“Letting go of the fog and putting the affair under the carpet”
“The press conference itself, which lasted for two hours, was a release of fog, just as a cuttlefish releases blackness, so Beroš tried to sweep the affair under the rug in order not to lose his position,” Mrsić added.
He says that “it is unethical for anyone who is now trying to put all the blame on a dead man.” So what if he didn’t take therapy, if he wasn’t vaccinated… What does that have to do with this? He got covid, he did what he did and he should have been admitted to the hospital”.
When asked when Matijanić should have been hospitalized, Mrsić answers: “According to what I know and what I have seen in the media, I have no medical documentation, the moment he himself said that he had an episode of severe suffocation and lack of breath, that’s when things started to go downhill and then he should have been hospitalized. Getting away with the fact that he should have come, that it was probably his fault that he died is the bottom line, and I don’t think our public will drink it, these statements, and that it will be clear to everyone that the system made a mistake. I expected that Beroš would learn some lessons for all other Matianići in the future, so that they do not happen”.
And the message, he says, should be clear: “The way we acted in the Matijanić case is not good and should not have happened. There is no telephone medicine, medicine is human-centered. Here we were not looking at a person, but only findings or some kind of numbers. It is necessary to examine the patient, process him and then conclude whether he is for the hospital or not. Telephone medicine, which is increasingly common in Croatia today, will not bring any good”.
“The truth will come out at some point and it is clear to everyone that the system did not provide adequate care to the late Matijanić,” Mrsić concluded.
You can see how yesterday’s committee’s presentation was in the attachment:
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