Justified reactions caused the serious medical mistake of nurse of Junction A hospital in Piraeus, where the employee was transfusion of blood to a 62 -year -old who did not need transfusion and even with the wrong blood group.
The result of the Nurse’s act was the 62 -year -old to suffer multiple strokes and get to the point of fighting a big battle for her life. The serious incident took place at the Pathology Clinic of Tzanios Hospital, report information from iatropedia.gr.
In the same chamber 2 women were hospitalized: one Polyimated patient with very low hematocritwhich had already received a blood bottle and He was also needing a second transfusion and one more 62 -year -old woman with light strokewithout any indication of transfusion.
The nurse allegedly confused the 2 patients, believing – incorrectly – that the woman with the neurological episode was the one needed by blood.
The result was to be administered to the 62 -year -old blood with incompatible group, causing her hemolysisa serious condition resulting from incompatible transfusion and leads to The collapse of all the vital organs and systems of the body.
The woman was urgently transferred to Intensive Care Unit, where it remains hospitalized.
However, the same sources in the hospital report to iatropedia.gr that the woman is showing signs of improvement.
The 62 -year -old does not seem to have suffered permanent damage, without being able to exclude complications, according to her doctors who are expected to issue a medical announcement today.
The nurse, Reportedly, confessed to the error ofwith the simple – but disarming – wording: ‘Confused».
Disciplinary and criminal prosecution
The nurse’s mistake will not only be treated as an unfortunate incident, but also as a serious disciplinary and criminal offense.
Has already been ordered Appeal Administrative Examination (SAD) by the hospital administration, the prosecutor has taken over the criminal investigation of the case, while memoirs Reports have been filed by the Governor of the January, but also by the patient’s own family.
Criminal treatment of the nurse will depend on the 62 -year -old’s health and on whether he will have permanent damage.
Immediate was the reaction of the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadiswho by posting in x, She took on political responsibility and apologized to the patient and her family:
“For yesterday’s extremely serious incident of an error, a hospital nurse, when the administration was found yesterday, the Administration immediately ordered the SAD for the circumstances of the incident, the prosecutor was called on the criminal side, and I asked the ODIPY to initiate the investigation. I wish you a passionate and sincere apology to her and her family, “the minister wrote.
EKEA “dusts” the protocols
In the incident, blood donation is not involved, According to the provisional president of the National Blood Donation Center (EKEA), Eleni Tsagari, who stated to iatropedia.gr:
“There was no mistake either in the bloodstream or in the blood donation of the january. It is obviously a medical error. The blood was right, the blood donation process at all, there was a patient who needed it. The error is exclusively concerned with the person to whom the blood was granted, “he says.
ECA, as announced, will draw up a complete report of the facts, focusing on the protocols of blood transfer and administration, without leveraging criminal responsibilities:
“We will take the full history of the whole event and submit a reference to the minister. It is not our responsibility for criminal investigation, but we will help prevent similar errors in the future, ”she said. Tsagari.
The incident brings back to the forefront the fragile balance between human error and the patient’s safety. Transfers procedures – considered one of the most critical acts in a hospital – must be carried out by strict identification checks.
From the SAD and the investigations to be done, it will be revealed if there was a detour or a protocol breach, or if the mistake was purely personal, with tragic consequences.
“We will do protocols research, we started on the afternoon of Thursday 5/6/2025 we were informed. It was not a matter for contamination infection or something about blood safety. But because we are a National Blood Donation Center for the protocol, so that what happened will not happen again, ”the EKEA president concludes.