Ramos Orengo v. Government of the Capital of Puerto Rico

The facts of this case are simple. On September 17, 1959 appellee Agustín Ramos Orengo was removed by Carlos Juan Medina Rivera to the outpatient clinic of the Government of the Capital in Barrio Obrero, Santurce, Puerto Rico, because the night before he had been taken ill with vomiting and diarrhea. From the taxicab he was placed on a wheel stretcher and taken to clerk Esther Carbonell de Reinosa who referred him to nurse Santa Rivera because it was an emergency case. The latter referred him to Dr. Ben-liza who instructed her to prepare him for examination while he finished attending another…