MG1<\/a> revealed that the 32-year-old psychologist died following a five-day delay in being moved to intensive care, a holdup allegedly driven by a state-managed algorithm used to ration hospital beds.<\/p>\nFatal Five-Day Emergency Delay<\/p>\n
Speaking to MG1, relatives recounted how the algorithm allegedly stalled the critical treatment needed to save her life.<\/p>\n
The psychologist was initially admitted to a small hospital in S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o Nepomuceno with complications from gallstones. However, as her condition deteriorated, she was left waiting for a vacancy at an intensive care unit roughly 186 miles away in Oliveira.<\/p>\n
Even after the family resorted to urgent legal measures to force the transfer, the move was significantly delayed. According to MG1, relatives are now convinced that the five-day wait ultimately cost the patient her life.<\/p>\n
Flawed Patient Priority Score<\/p>\n
The patient’s twin sister and family lawyer, S\u00e2mela Cardoso Tenente Furtado, said the automated management system generated a health rating that failed to reflect her true condition.<\/p>\n
The digital score, produced by AI tools within Brazil’s State Regulation Operations Center (Core-MG), allegedly became the barrier between the patient and an immediate intensive care bed.<\/p>\n
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‘What we saw was that doctors lost the autonomy to decide if a patient is very seriously ill,’ Furtado told MG1.<\/p>\n
‘The one who has to accept whether a patient is seriously ill is no longer the doctor who is there experiencing that reality with the patient, it’s the Core.’<\/p>\n
Furtado described what she characterised as a rigid system that locked her sister into a fixed category despite medical evidence suggesting her condition was rapidly worsening.<\/p>\n
Trapped by Inflexible Algorithms<\/p>\n
‘She would have been a 10, and the system only accepted her as a 6.8,’ Furtado continued.<\/p>\n
‘So she couldn’t progress properly in the system because a patient at 8, a patient at 6.9 would jump ahead of her. And the system wouldn’t accept increasing her severity level within the system because of the tests that were constantly feeding it data.’<\/p>\n
Molina’s sister also spoke about the human cost of reducing patients to data points.<\/p>\n
‘My sister, other people, are not just numbers, they are not just protocols, they are not just a CPF [Brazilian tax ID number] thrown into the system,’ she told MG1.<\/p>\n
‘They have families, they had dreams, they had a whole life ahead of them.’<\/p>\n
Official Defence of Core-MG<\/p>\n
Following the launch of the automated system on 19 May, Minas Gerais Deputy Secretary of Health Poliana Cardoso Lopes defended the technology in a public statement<\/a>.<\/p>\nShe explained: ‘Core provides a bed map that is updated three times a day. With this, it will be possible to have much more control over the process and generate better data on the clinical condition and needs of each person waiting for a bed.’<\/p>\n
Family Demands Legal Accountability<\/p>\n
When questioned by MG1 about the tragedy, the state health department maintained that transfers rely strictly on finding a vacancy that matches a patient’s medical requirements.<\/p>\n
Officials also insisted that Core-MG has introduced no fundamental changes to the way patients are transferred between healthcare facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brazilian family is suing after a critically ill woman allegedly died without receiving an ICU bed because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[11981,216749,102,2960,216748,216750,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-642823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ai-in-healthcare","tag-brazilian-lawsuit","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-icu-bed-denial","tag-medical-algorithm-controversy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}