He is discharged from the hospital, and a few days later, tumors appear on his head. Young man hospitalized for months with brain exposed

A 19-year-old boy from Sao Tome was hospitalized in a Sao Tome hospital for almost six months with a “severe injury” to his head that could damage part of his brain if he was not urgently transferred to Portugal for treatment.

Danilo dos Ramos told Lusa that he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle and hit his head on the ground. When he was taken to the hospital, they did tests and said that “everything is in order.”

The young man revealed that he developed swellings on his head a few days later, forcing him to return to the hospital after surgery, but in the weeks that followed, complications ruined all of the skin on the back of his head, leaving part of his brain exposed and affecting him for a long time. several months.

“I feel like the head, when it was operated on, acted like it opened my mind, like someone was reaching out and taking something out. When I lie down, I feel like a person is giving me an iron on my back,” Danilo dos Ramos described.

Lying in bed at the Doutor Aires de Menezes hospital in Sao Tome, with an extensive bandage over his head, Danilo dos Ramos called for a medical evacuation to Portugal to find a solution to the problem.

“I hope this ends soon, it causes me a lot of pain (…) I don’t want this pain anymore, I don’t want this misfortune anymore, I haven’t slept for 15 days,” he said. .

One of his older brothers, Temilson dos Ramos, sent photos to Lusa, which went viral on social media a week ago exposing the “shocking situation” Danilo’s head was in, but no solution was found.

“If the local hospital was confused with his head, then they knew that this was such a situation that it was impossible to operate here, they did not bother, they sent him home the way he came. [em Portugal] there had to be a solution for him,” complained Temilson dos Ramos.

According to him, the family has already completed all the documents that the hospital instructed to transfer Danilo dos Ramos to Portugal for treatment, but so far she does not have a definite answer.

“If they don’t fix this problem” and the young man dies, “the family will have to give up” the body, he warned.

Lusa was in the hospital and tried to hear from the management of the institution and the clinical service, but the explanation was refused, with the indication that clarification should be requested in writing to the hospital administration.

However, Lusa contacted San Tomean doctor Ana Maria Costa, an internal medicine specialist with experience in pre-hospital emergency care who works at Dr. José Maria Grande Hospital in Portalegre, Portugal, and analyzed Danilo dos Ramos’s situation through images and admitted, that it was “trauma at the level of oneself.”

“The question I ask is if this patient has a CT scan. [tomografia arterial computorizada] brain scan before and after the operation?” he asked, warning that the patient needed nuclear magnetic resonance, which is not available in Sao Tome health services.

Ana Maria Costa admitted that after the operation there will be “overgrowth of brain tissue”, “with a huge wound in the brain area”, which must be treated “as a last resort”.

“The user has been suffering for five, six months, in pain and who knows what, and in Sao Tome, with such an injury in a young body (…) I cannot understand that such a situation can be. in Sao Tome without a proper decision,” the doctor complained.

“From the moment of brain injury, the imposition of neurosurgical care is mandatory,” he added.

The doctor said she hoped that the wound was “treated like an operating surgical wound in an acetic environment” in which the doctor and the material used in this operation were “all properly sterilized.”

“I hope and thank the health authorities to use all existing mechanisms in Sao Tome for the evacuation [médica] this young man, and this is for yesterday. I cannot accept the fact that something like this has been lying in a hospital bed for five or six months, ”said Ana Maria Costa.