A young man committed suicide after receiving a positive COVID-19 test result – one that turned out to be wrong, Mexican News Daily reported on Sunday.
But a couple of days later, for reasons not completely clear, the young man entered a hospital bathroom alone and decided to end his life. He was found 20 minutes later by a nurse, hanging from a sheet he had tied to the door.
It seems like the hospital and its staff will not be held accountable for the tragic incident, Leopoldo Santillán, a Coahuila social security administrator indicated.
Santillán added that the young man was capable of entering the bathroom by himself and that it wasn't the hospital staff's responsibility to accompany someone in his condition to the bathroom.
Perhaps the most tragic aspect of this whole story is that the second test that was administered on Alberto came out negative after his untimely death.
Santillán explained that under the hospital's protocol for handling the pandemic, COVID-19 patients are eligible for follow-up psychological consulting, but that the hospital cannot and is not expected to predict unexpected incidents such as this.
“The protocol states that they receive psychological support after leaving the hospital due to the anxiety that the disease leaves patients with,” he said. “We can’t predict if someone is already coming to us with anxiety. That is something that is attended to at the general practitioner level.”