Millena Brandão, a Brazilian actress who participated in the Netflix ‘Sontonia’ series, died at the age of 11 after falling ill and hospitalized.
The news of his death, which took place on Friday, May 2, was confirmed by his parents, the Thays Brandão and Luiz Rodrigo, as well as by Brazilian health services, according to CNN.
What happened to Millena Brandão?
According to the Brazilian G1 media report, Millena Brandão’s mother shared that she took her to the doctor for the first time at the Pedreira General Hospital, Sao Paulo, on April 24, after presentation of discomfort.
“He hurt his head, but he could walk and talk, the doctor said he was a dengue, but he made no proof, he told us to take her home and give him a dipyrone,” said Thays Brandão in the middle.
Two days later, the mother exposes, the teenage artist continued with the symptoms and “began to complain about the pain in the foot, who could not walk”, so they took her back to the aforementioned clinic, where blood tests did not show any changes.
On Monday 28, Millena died in the bathroom of her home, so her family transferred her to a different hospital and also dependent on the local government.
According to the parents, the evidence excluded Dangio Dangio, Covid and H1N1, but doctors said he “had a urinary tract infection,” Thay recalled to deal with it.
After the child “put her hand on her head and shouted with pain”, the team that took care of her decided to ask for a place for her in a clinic in the capital.
The next morning, she had her first cardiopulmonary conception: “Her lip became purple, then she was rejuvenated and rescued, from that day, she never woke up.”
Detected “mass” in the brain of Milna Brandão
On Tuesday, April 29, Millena Brandão was transferred to Grajaú General Hospital, where her mother says: “There was no neurologist.”
“They only did an electronic tomography and the doctors said they had seen a five centimeter mass in their brain, but we do not know if it was tumor, bladder, swelling, clot … because they could not open their heads,” said Thays Brandão.
After this discovery, the child “deteriorated, with two or three heart strikes a day”: “He had 13 stops in total.
“One day he had seven respiratory strikes.” Sometimes massage and sometimes download [con un aparato desfibrilador]”, He recalled.
According to the Thays, when she was able to take her to De Clínicas Hospital, where she would have specialists in Neurology, doctors chose not to do so: “They preferred to let her see if she stabilized because only by handling her body gave her a heart arrest.”
On Friday, May 2, the doctors made Millena a brainhogram, which confirmed the death of the brain, but expressed that they would expect their hearts to stop naturally before disabled the machinery that kept her alive, her mother determined.
“I told them that if we let their little heart stop beating on its own. We would suffer more, and we asked them to turn off the devices,” he said.
After death and in the middle of his mourning, Thays said that “doctors have not yet said what really happened” to their daughter or “what killed her”: “they will do a biopsy to find out what was in their brain.”
After what happened, the Municipal Health Secretariat said that “a survey will open to investigate” if the attention received by Milna Brandão was sufficient.
Source: univision
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