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Medical  Mistakes

These Angels lost their lives due to Medical Staff error ...

9 year old Zumante Luceros' death from severe asth,a could have been prevented, had Denver Human Services resolved problems  with his Medical Benefits.  In March 2009, his mother went to fill his prescription at a local Pharmacy, but a worker told her that he did not have Prescription Drug Coverage anymore.  She called Denver Human Services every day, trying to get him coverage for so long that the childs' health deteriorated.  The error turned out to be a glitch in a computer, that automatically kept sending her false reports about Zumante having coverage, with staff telling her he didn't.

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2 year old Stephanie Stephens died after her mother called Emergency (911) twice.  The first time, medics reportedly suggested putting the girl in the bathroom with the shower running so steam could help her breath. They then told the toddler's mother to give her Tylenol and left, without taking her to the hospital.  Nearly nine hours later, Stephanie's mother called again to say her daughter was having trouble breathing. The little girl died within a few hours at Children's Hospital in the District of Columbia.

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Kaylnn Moore told reporters in New York yesterday that when she went into labor a month early on December 21, doctors at Christ Hospital in Jersey decided to do a C-section.  Instead of getting her Christmas miracle - a healthy baby boy named  Bashere Davon Moyd,  Jr.,  Moore's son was stillborn. Devastated, the young mother left her baby's remains in the care of the hospital and went home. When she came back to claim him,  the Medical Staff at Christ Hospital claimed it couldn't find Bashir. The police told her that her African-American son had accidentally been thrown in the trash; tossed away like garbage.  Investigators determined that on Dec. 21, the stillborn body of Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. was placed in the hospital morgue but later discarded before Jan. 2, when funeral home employees were to remove him.

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Two-day-old Emmery Miller and five-day-old D’myia Alexander Nelson, both girls, died after being given adult-size doses of medication, prompting hospital officials to review drug-handling procedures.  Adult doses of the blood-thinner Heparin were somehow placed in a drug cabinet at the Newborn Intensive Care Unit of Methodist Hospital in Indiana.  The hospital said human error was to blame.

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State officials launched an investigation into St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin to find out why a 16-year-old girl suddenly died there.  The Madison teenager was there to give birth, was being induced into labor at the hospital when she was given the "wrong drug" and died.  

Jasmine Gant, who would have been a junior at Verona High School, died at St. Mary's Hospital, the same day her baby was born.   She was given the wrong drug, which shut her body completely down. The situation was "mishandled" and that the hospital did the wrong thing.