Roger Ferrer has been waiting for years for a response to his claim regarding medical negligence. In February 2022, he underwent an appendectomy at the Granollers Hospital and an error in the machine that supplied his anesthesia caused him to feel the incisions during the entire operation, even though his muscles were sedated and he could not move or warn about what was happening. "I felt the pain of the operation's incisions and them probing. I lived an experience of death in life and I haven't been the same since," he explained in an interview with Eldiario.es.Accompanied by his lawyer, Lucia Gonzalez-Cuevas, he initiated an administrative claim, a mandatory procedure in cases like this before being able to file a lawsuit. The lawyer explains to ARA that the goal is for the administration to acknowledge negligence and compensate Ferrer for the psychological aftermath he still carries today and which have caused him to leave his job as an educator with minors under guardianship. "He has claustrophobia, he is on alert for everything," explains the lawyer.

Human error has led to the deaths of two cancer patients at Burgos Hospital. The mistake occurred during the preparation of a treatment that was also administered to three other patients, one of whom is hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU), as confirmed by the hospital's manager, Carlos Cartón, at a press conference on Tuesday. "It wasn't done as it should have been," the manager lamented. Both the Castile and León Health Department and the hospital have taken responsibility for the error and have not identified any staff member as responsible. The incident took place during the Christmas holidays. Specifically, the error occurred during the preparation of the treatment administered to these patients, who received a dose six times higher than necessary. Cartón explained that a numerical error was detected in the drug preparation record in the hospital pharmacy, affecting five patients. This is a guide that indicates how to prepare the medication and it has already been corrected, so they assure that there is no risk of it happening again to other people receiving treatment at this hospital.