Posted on 04/14/2006 7:55:33 AM PDT by Borges
A grieving family wants to know if their loved one's death could have been prevented.
Last Monday, inmate Maria Inamagua hit her head at the Ramsey County Jail. She was an illegal immigrant awaiting deportation.
Inamagua died Thursday after her family took her off life support. Doctors don't know if the fall caused her death, but a woman locked up with Inamagua said jail workers should have done more to help.
Quinn Henson got a DUI and said she ended up in the same jail pod as Inamagua.
Henson said she could see what happened after Inamagua fell from a bunk, hit her head and complained of a headache.
"For me the deputy's job should have been opening the door, maybe looking at her, pushing her, touching her, nudging her to see if she was responsive and I didn't see her do that at all," said Henson.
Henson said the jail nurse checked Inamagua out and sent her back to her cell, but about four hours later, she looked lifeless and was rushed to the hospital.
"The deputy and her roommate had to carry her to the chair, her head was like bobbing back and forth," Henson said. "Her eyes were not open, she wasn't responding."
Inamagua's family said doctors at Regions Hospital discovered parasites were actually attacking her brain.
Jail staff didn't know that. Officials said while this is a sad case, everyone involved did their jobs.
“It appears the staff followed all of the proper protocol and got her transported when it was appropriate to the hospital,” said St. Paul-Ramsey County Department of Public Health Director Rob Fulton.
"I'm here to put the truth on the table for that lady," Henson said. "I don't believe anybody took responsibility for her. I don't believe anybody did their job correctly and maybe if she was taken to the hospital as soon as it happened, something could have been different."
“The records indicate that the deputy assigned to the pod checked on the inmate every half hour," said Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher. "In addition, her cell mate did not observe a problem until shortly before eight o'clock."
That's when Inamagua was brought to the hospital.
Officials are still investigating and Inamagua's family has hired a lawyer.
But that being said
A grieving family wants to know if their loved one's death could have been prevented.
She could have not broken the law in the first place....
Well, if she would have stayed in her home country, she wouldn't have been in jail and at the very least, couldn't have fallen out of that particular bed...
As far as actually preventing death, I'm sorry to say that none of us gets out of here alive
Feel sorry for the correction officers and taxpayers who will be paying off her family when a lawyer shows up to sue for wrongful death.
The source is the article? Near the middle.
What the heck is that all about?
This is a nice way of saying that she has been voting Democrat since she got here.
Latinos have the terible habit of allowing pigs to forage off garbage in the streets and dumps. Have seen it hundreds of times. Cause & effect?
Howard Dean was attacking her brain??
Just damn. If she had come legally, with a health check this may not have happened. Tragic, but nobody's fault but her own for not seeking medical care way before winding up in the tank.
It isn't how far you fall, it's how you hit when you land.
"Pigs normally serve as the intermediate host for the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, and humans are infected with the adult stage of the tapeworm when they ingest an immature tapeworm (a cysticercus) in raw or undercooked pork. However, if humans ingest eggs of T. solium, they can be infected with cysticerci, resulting in a condition known as cysticercosis. What might be the source of these eggs? Humans harbor the adult stage of this tapeworm, and it is the adult stage that produces eggs. Thus, many cases of cysticercosis probably result from a person ingesting eggs that are produced by a tapeworm living in his or her own intestinal tract. Poor personal hygiene is one obvious way in which this could occur. It is also possible for the proglottids of T. solium to migrate anteriorly from the small intestine into the stomach and then back into the small intestine. Should this occur the eggs in the proglottids would hatch resulting in the potential for a massive infection of cysticerci. People can also be infected via food contaminated with eggs, or via eggs present in a household or work environment. Since the tapeworm's proglottids can crawl out of the anus and contaminate clothing, furniture, etc., or drop to the ground, such contamination could occur in the absence of any visible source of "fecal" contamination."
"For example, a cysticercus in the eye might lead to blindness, a cysticercus in the spinal cord could lead to paralysis, or a cysticercus in the brain (neurocysticercosis) could lead to traumatic neurological damage. Thus, even though infections with adult T. solium are rarely a problem, treatment of such infections is absolutely essential."
http://ryoko.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/cysticercosis.html
They are called cells, and there are so many cells in a pod. A Pod is a section of the jail with cells in it.
Here is another article about the brain parasite.
An intestinal parasite that has long existed in areas of Mexico and nations to the south is now making its way across the border with more frequency.
http://www.uthscsa.edu/mission/fall99/brain.htm
/bad humor
Lawsuit???? You betcha.
Isn't that swell. Another disease we have to worry about. Thank you, Mexico.
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