Medical staff allegedly neglected to help 8-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez despite her worsening symptoms, including a 104.9 degree fever.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s chief medical officer has been removed from his post and reassigned elsewhere after andied while in Border Patrol custody last month. The agency has launched an investigation into the tragic death of Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez, who had a history of congenital heart disease and sickle cell anemia.
Medical staff allegedly neglected to help Álvarez despite her worsening symptoms, including a 104.9 degree fever, and failed to review her medical files,reported. She was born in Panama and had crossed into the U.S. with her family only a week before her death.
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