The Regional Health Service (SAS) has been ordered to pay 136,473 euros in compensation to a man who was treated at the Motril area hospital, Santa Ana.

The man had gone to the Emergency Department in November 2004 complaining of head pains and was diagnosed as suffering from a migraine, whilst in reality he had an aneurysm – a ballooning up of an artery in the brain. He was sent home even though, the judge found, that symptoms of an aneurysm existed. In the Judge’s consideration the doctors should have carried out a CAT scan on his head. Even when the man returned the next day, no CAT scan was carried out.

Owing to the delay in a correct diagnosis the aneurysm ruptured causing haemorrhaging and its logical consequences.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)