A domino of errors led to the death of soldier Nikos Gatsis: A nurse asked patients if they knew how to perform CPR

A aesculapian squad that was obscurity to beryllium found. A nursing adjunct with nary expertise, who was asking patients for assistance adjacent with CPR. Two nurses who near the 424 Military Hospital successful Thessaloniki earlier their displacement ended. An exigency telephone enactment that “did not work.” An operating study that was altered. A country nether scrutiny — was it performed oregon was it utilized arsenic an alibi for unexplained absences? And ultimately, a 27‑year‑old soldier, Nikos Gatsis, dead, successful little than 2 hours from being transferred to a modular ward from a hard surgery.
It was Friday, November 3, 2023, and the young antheral died, fundamentally unaided, choked by his ain blood.

Shocking details astir the last moments of worker Nikos Gatsis look from the tribunal record investigating his death.
The young worker underwent country to region his thyroid — and the household aboriginal learned that there was nary malignancy.
Although the country was necessary, it was not cancerous. According to adept testimonies, if Nikos Gatsis had been fixed a tracheostomy astatine the captious moment, helium could person survived. Yet nary doc was adjacent him astatine the captious hour, arsenic proceedings deposits and testimonies to subject justness reveal.

In a memorandum to the authoritative of the Military Court of Thessaloniki, his begetter Aris Gatsis responds to the claims and raises questions. Based connected the grounds helium presents, Mr. Gatsis demands criminal prosecution for intentional homicide with imaginable malice (dolus eventualis), arguing that the actions and behaviour of the aesculapian unit spell acold beyond specified negligence.

Othon Papadopoulos: “The omissions were criminal, the lad was near to die”

The family’s lawyer, Othon Papadopoulos, told Protothema that the household seeks ineligible redress:

“From the prosecutorial probe into the nonstop circumstances of N. Gatsis’s death, we person encountered galore surprises — a bid of parallel and autarkic transgression omissions which pb america to the decision that the young man’s decease was owed to imaginable malice by those liable — doctors and nurses astatine Hospital 424. As it emerged, the young antheral was left unaided successful a infirmary bed, near to die. We could not judge however galore transgression omissions took place. We person already filed a question to enactment the indictment and are proceeding done the ineligible process to vindicate some his representation and his family.”

The nursing adjunct who asked patients for help

Indicative of the information that Gatsis died virtually unaided — astatine the captious time, the ward had lone a nursing adjunct with nary specialized knowledge, a precocious schoolhouse graduate, and past a doc who turned retired to beryllium unable to help.
The adjunct nurse, who aboriginal gave grounds successful the investigation, admitted she did not cognize however to execute the indispensable aesculapian procedures. She said she was notified astatine 3 p.m. by a diligent adjacent to Gatsis that the young antheral could not breathe. She called the on‑duty surgeon and got no answer, past called the duty caput nurse, and rushed to the ward to spot that the worker could not breathe.

She past called the hospital’s exigency enactment 2555, but received nary response. She called again to study a cardiac arrest, but no 1 answered. She began CPR, and instructed a neighbour diligent to interaction the hospital’s interior exigency lines, portion successful panic she tried to act.

A fewer minutes aboriginal — but by then, critically delayed — she was joined by the floor officer, who besides began calling exigency lines without success.
Witnesses accidental the nursing adjunct attempted valiantly, but lacked the cognition to help. She reportedly adjacent asked different patients for help, who rushed into the corridors, to different floors, seeking a neurosurgery doc — “running successful panic close and near looking for someone,” according to the father’s transcript of testimonies.

One cardinal witnesser — admitted successful the lawsuit record and nationalist reports — was a diligent successful a neighboring bed. He testified that helium heard the sounds of the young antheral choking, listened arsenic the caregiver cried retired for assistance successful each directions, entered the ward to spot her performing CPR, and she asked if helium knew however to bash CPR.
Finally, that antheral ran from the fourth to the crushed floor to find help, but found none.