Tragedy in Morocco: 5-Year-Old Ceuta Girl Dies After Travel Complications

The young girl, born prematurely in Ceuta with a twin sister who died just a few days after their birth, has since suffered from respiratory problems, say relatives of the family to El Faro de Ceuta. The fragile girl underwent treatment for two years in a hospital in Cadiz, before being allowed to return home where she would be under strict medical supervision. This is how her parents returned with her to Ceuta to continue the treatment at home. But the girl’s condition did not improve, forcing the parents to go to Seville or Cadiz every two weeks for medical check-ups.

The girl’s health began to deteriorate rapidly this summer when her parents took her to spend the holidays with her maternal grandmother in Fnideq. The pediatricians consulted in Morocco were unable to make an accurate diagnosis, which led the girl’s parents to postpone their return to Spain until last Thursday. But they were unable to take the Tangier-Malaga flight, although they had all the required documents. Half an hour before the flight, they were notified that they could not board with the oxygen bottle to which a respiratory device connected to the girl was attached. Their plane tickets were even canceled, the parents explain.

The family then got back into the ambulance that had taken them to the airport and took the girl to a private clinic to receive emergency care. But unfortunately, the little girl died. According to the doctors, she was completely lacking in oxygen when she arrived and they could no longer do anything for her. "They came with their daughter and now leave empty-handed," lament relatives of the family. The parents of the girl, who have just lost their second daughter, are inconsolable. They deplore that nothing was done in Morocco to save their daughter.