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Portsmouth Man Dies

On February 13, 2010 Lance Corporal Ezequiel Freire died due to the negligence of the doctors at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, according Virginian Pilot Online. The Lance Corporal Freire served in a tour in Afghanistan where he fought in 50 fire fights. He made it home safely in 2009 just in time for Thanksgiving, but started to suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome. When he returned to Camp Lejeune he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and post traumatic stress syndrome in 2009 at the base clinic. He was transferred to Portsmouth Naval Hospital for care and to receive his first round of chemotherapy. The amount and mixture of powerful narcotics and sedatives are what killed the lance corporal. He was given doses of Oxycodone, OxyContin, and Fentanyl the night he died. The autopsy showed that it was the mixture of the drugs not the cancer that killed him. The family of Lance Corporal Ezequiel Freire are unable to file a personal injury suit against the doctors and nurses at the hospital, because of the Feres Doctrine. The Feres Doctrine states that neither active duty service men nor their family can file a personal injury suit against the Military, because of the idea the government can do nothing wrong.

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