Homeland Security is blaming contract medical personnel for bungling the handling of an 8-year-old migrant girl who died in Border Patrol custody last month.
The department said a nurse practitioner rejected repeated requests from the girl’s family that she be taken to a hospital.
But despite her condition and her mother’s entreaties, “contracted medical personnel did not transfer her to a hospital for higher-level care,” CBP said in a statement. CBP said the camera system was flagged for replacement on April 13, but still wasn’t repaired on May 17, when the girl died. She was sent to another holding cell with her family and was given medications for the flu, but she worsened on May 17, with four separate visits to the medical unit. She complained of a stomachache, nausea and difficulty breathing.
An ambulance arrived at 2:07 p.m. and took the girl to a hospital where she was declared dead at 2:50 p.m.
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