You often hear stories about people coming back from the dead but dismiss them as folktales. But a story that transpired for the family of a three-year-old girl, combined all their nightmares into one.
On August 17, three-year-old Camila Roxana Martinez Mendoza was experiencing pain in her stomach, vomiting, and fever. This worried her mother Mary Jane Mendoza who decided to seek medical attention for her little girl.
She took her daughter to a pediatrician in her hometown of Villa de Ramos. The local doctor thought the case was advanced and needed more expert medical attention and help, thus prompting the mother to take her daughter to the central state of Mexico; San Luis Potosí.
There she went to Salinas de Hidalgo Basic Community Hospital. Doctors at the hospital placed a cold towel on her lower body to lower her temperature while also placing an oximeter on her to keep check on her oxygen levels.
Doctors released the little girl and wrote her a prescription for paracetamol. But her condition only worsened over the next few hours which prompted her family to seek a second opinion. The next doctor advised a diet of fruits and also prescribed another medication.
When even that did not help, they consulted another doctor who advised that the little girl needed to be hospitalized right away. She was admitted to the Salinas hospital between 9 and 10 p.m where doctors and medical support staff worked to stabilize her condition.
“They wanted to give her (intravenous therapy). They took a long time to put oxygen on her. They didn’t put it on her because they couldn’t find her little veins; finally, a nurse managed it,” her mother said…CONTINUE READING