Man Losed His Left Eye, Because Of Defective Product.

Man Losed His Left Eye, Because Of Defective Product. 

A neighbor from Errenteria has sue to Osakidetza because of suffering a necrosis on the optic nerve by the use of a drug in poor condition when he was in an operation of retinal detachment.

The health alert was issued in late June and the product manufactured in Germany has been retired, but leaves at least thirty affected in the State, seven of them from Basque Country.

The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has ordered the recall of the product, a synthetic compound from carbon and fluorine manufactured by a German company and commonly used in ophthalmic interventions. It is a gas for ocular interventions used to secure the retina. The order was given on June 26, but it is estimated that the toxic gas would have already hurt to thirty. 

Mikel Gonzalez, is one patient who has get  blind after the surgery on his left eye. He was diagnosed with mild retinal detachment in December of 2014. He was operated  three times. The last one , the 2 of June. "The day after the operation you cant see very well, I saw everything black," he says by phone from Renteria (Gipuzkoa). The doctor  cited for a review a week later. "There already were surprised. But do not you see anything at all? Something you should see, they told me. "In July, the doctor received a "Sit down, I have bad news" and informed him that the damage was irreversible. "He told me that one of the products had been toxic and I had stunted the optic nerve and retinal damage".