An infant was not tested for whooping cough, even though the parents insisted. First Nine days later the samples were taken.
The parents of coughing three weeks old baby suspected pertussis and made two visits to the Skaraborg hospital, but was told that it was colds and whooping cough is so unusual that it barely exists in Sweden.
First Nine days later , samples were taken for whooping cough, which the child was found to have.
The father has previously told P4 Skaraborg the son received such a severe coughing fit at the hospital he was unconscious.
– He put off. Was completely gray and stopped breathing.
Today, the boy is feeling fine.
Now the hospital critique of the Inspectorate for Health Care for not having taken the samples previously .
Although there are no notes in the medical record that verifies the parents’ reports that they asked for sampling for cough, so consider Inspectorate for health care that such samples should have been taken earlier, because of the child’s symptoms .
Both the National Board of Health and the Public Health Agency has urged health care providers to be generous with samples of whooping cough.
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