Fatma Işık, a 20-year psoriasis patient who was transferred to a private hospital due to a lack of space in the intensive care unit at Bursa Uludağ University Hospital, where she went with complaints of weakness and dizziness, passed away two days later. Işık's family filed a criminal complaint with the prosecutor's office, alleging negligence, while officials from the private hospital denied the accusations, stating that the patient, who had a high level of infection in her blood, was resuscitated and intubated after her heart stopped. INFECTION IN THE BLOOD AND KIDNEY FAILURE DETECTEDFatma Işık, a mother of one living with her sister Gökçe Üneşi in the Mustafakemalpaşa district, went to Mustafakemalpaşa State Hospital on September 30 with complaints of weakness and dizziness. Doctors detected the beginning of infection and kidney failure in Işık's test results. Işık was told that her treatment needed to be done at Bursa Uludağ University Hospital, and she left the hospital after receiving the prescribed medication. While resting at her sister's house, Işık returned to the hospital on October 14 with a high fever. After her condition was assessed as serious, she was transferred to Bursa Uludağ University Hospital, where she was treated for six days. Due to a lack of space in the intensive care unit, she was transferred to a private hospital on October 20. Fatma Işık, who was treated in the intensive care unit there, had her heart restarted through intervention. Intubated, Işık passed away two days later on October 22. Işık's family filed a criminal complaint against the private hospital with the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, alleging negligence. Fatma Işık's body was sent to her hometown Yozgat for burial after the autopsy procedures at the Bursa Forensic Medicine Institution. HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS DENIED THE ACCUSATIONS Gökçe Üneşi, who claims that her sister, who married at 15 and has a 12-year-old daughter, has been a psoriasis patient for 20 years but has no other illnesses, stated, "My sister Fatma Işık fell ill. She stayed at my house for two weeks. She was feeling weak and tired. Then suddenly her blood pressure dropped. We took her to Mustafakemalpaşa State Hospital. Because there was an infection in her blood, she was drinking plenty of water. Since the hospital was inadequate, they transferred my sister to Bursa Uludağ University Medical Faculty. We stayed in the hospital's red zone for six days. There was no available intensive care unit anywhere in Bursa. They told us there was a place in the intensive care unit of a private hospital. My sister was conscious when we were going there. We took her body from the hospital where she went cheerfully and talking," she said. Officials from the private hospital denied the accusations, stating that when the patient arrived, her blood values were already poor, and they resuscitated and intubated Işık after her heart stopped, adding that she later fell ill again and passed away.
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