A child chokes for seven days with a coin in the throat and does not allow its extraction

A calvary lives in a family in the department of Santander, after a five-year-old has swallowed a room and the health care provider has kept the procedures to extract it. The child already finishes seven days with the object stuck in his throat.

Amanda Mora, mother of the child, indicated that Life (Life) had not allowed the necessary procedures to extract the child's body part alleging that he was not suffering from A serious illness.

"The EPS tells me that you can not authorize the treatment in Bucaramanga because it is not a serious problem that affects your health, they told me that taking water could expel the child, "said Mora. Blu Radio on the medical recommendations they gave you to help your child.

For nearly a week, the child is detained at the University Hospital of Santander, waiting for the room to come out alone, that he has ingested without his parents perceiving it. when he played at home with other children, according to the same source. Radio Caracol.

The child suffers from breathing problems and should receive food through a tube. So, Mora, who is originally from South Bolivar, decided to settle with his son in Bucaramanga City, thinking that he would be better treated.

The EPS Salud Vida, to which the minor is affiliated, indicates that he must be transferred to a medical center in Popayán, the only one to have the equipment to remove the metal from his rib cage, but does not have an ambulance mobilize him.

The minor is being treated at the University Hospital of Santander

That is why, says the station, the mother requests loans from banks to be able to perform the endoscopic procedure autonomously, in order to extract the coin from his throat, which is very expensive.

Meanwhile, the child is always under medical supervision in order to be able to receive the necessary nutrients, since he can not eat food by mouth, and to avoid any infection.