'I found it really distressing to see a child who has treatable illness, a preventable illness, suffering,' said Dr. Marie DeLuca, an emergency physician from New York City.
In the video, the 16-year-old can be seen walking inside a cell, wearing a disposable white face mask. He lies down on a cement bench, where another boy, who has not been identified, appears to be sleeping under a Mylar blanket across from him.
Further, Border Patrol logs obtained by ProPublica had suggested that agents had conducted three welfare checks during the time Vasquez had been left lying on the floor. It is not clear whether any issue had been flagged during those checks.Dr. Marie DeLuca, an emergency physician from New York City who helped co-found Doctors for Camp Closure, which advocates against the detention of immigrant children in the U.S., said she cried while watching the video of Vasquez's final moments.
"I've seen very distressing and disturbing things as part of my job, but those are in a context where I'm able to act and take care of people and use my medical skills and my knowledge to help people... and seeing a video of a child dying without any of us being allowed to help them...or to help people who are in the same situation as he was in now, that's really, really disturbing.
"You don't even need a doctor to say that if someone has the flu, they need to be in an environment where they can be warm, comfortable and have access to healthy food and people to make sure they're checking in on them," DeLuca said. "I'm a pediatric emergency doctor and I see kids with the flu and sepsis all the time in the emergency room," she said."They come in very sick and with prompt treatment and adequate resuscitation, they can do quite well."
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