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1-year-old dies of sepsis as parents desperately seek hospital care


The Julian family went from one hospital to another to seek treatment for their one-year-old baby girl, but when a hospital was finally ready to admit them, it was too late, a report on "24 Oras" showed on Thursday.

According to Corinne Catibayan's report, Jonald Julian's daughter Jonalyn was experiencing vomiting and fever on Feb. 25, which led them to call for an ambulance, which did not have the right equipment so they ended up having to pump oxygen for their child.

Julian said that the first hospital they tried was fully occupied, so they went to another. After three hours of waiting, the hospital revealed that it could not accept more patients.

"Isang oras kami sa labas, para kaming.... yung palaboy ba na kami pa yung nagpupump sa loob ng ambulansya ng anak namin para lang mabuhay. Pero dinadaan-daanan lang po nila kami tapos sasabihin wala raw bakante," Julian said through his tears.

[We waited for an hour, standing outside like vagrants while we were pumping oxygen in the ambulance so that our child would live. But people just kept passing by us until they told us there was no more vacancy.]

When another hospital was finally ready to admit them, however, it was already too late.

A month after their daughter 's death, test results showed Jonalyn did not have the coronavirus. It turned out that she died of sepsis, a serious condition in which one's organs and tissues are damaged as a result of the body's own response to an infection.

The Julian family appealed to the public to take sepsis seriously so that they would not experience the same tragedy. — Consuelo Marquez/BM, GMA News

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