A woman from Caleta Olivia, Santa Cruz, Argentina, denounced through social networks that she had lost the cartilage in her nose after undergoing a blood test. COVID-19.
A bad swab, performed in a private clinic, caused the patient to get an infection in her nose, which led her to lose the internal cartilage.
Claudia Serran, the complainant, works as a therapeutic companion, so in August 2021 it was a matter of routine that they perform tests to be able to enter the intensive care rooms, where she normally works.
In one of the PCR tests that were applied to her, a bad swab destroyed her cartilage and now she is waiting for an urgent operation to help her.
Index hide“I was called to take a service from a lady who was about to die and her children couldn’t take care of her anymore. I took the job with a colleague, who had the swab done in a hospital and mine was done in a private laboratory in which they charged ten thousand pesos (Argentines) and the lady’s daughter paid for it, “said Serran in an interview.
After this test, he began to feel constant discomfort, in addition to the fact that his nose changed in appearance and shape.
“It started to itch, to bother me. They gave me the negative. As the days passed, the discomfort persisted, but the doctor told me that it was normal. A kind of gelatinous blood was constantly coming out of me and my face was gushing out, “explained Serran.
Despite what the doctor said, the changes in her nose alerted Claudia that what was happening to her was not normal.
“My nose area had turned red, so I decided to go to the hospital. He had about four or five centimeters of dilation in his nostril,” she said.
After suffering damage to the cartilage, Claudia had to face another health problem, since the medications with which she was treated caused other ailments.
“I don’t have the cartilage that the nose normally has. I had 18,000 white blood cells, with chronic anemia. All my veins had burst and I am allergic to penicillin, I no longer received antibiotics because they hurt my arms a lot, “she said.
The health problem caused by the bad swab has caused her personal situations, because although she urgently needs to travel to the city of Córdoba, where her 8 and 11-year-old daughters are being held, she cannot do so because she has not been operated on. .
“For this reason it is the hurry of the operation. If the procedural deadlines expire, I will never see my daughters again. But since I have the infection, they tell me that they still can’t operate on me. They don’t give me any solution, ”she recounts.
The operation that Claudia Serran needs to reconstruct her nose has a cost of 200 thousand Argentine pesos, equivalent to 40 thousand Mexican pesos.
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