An experience that was supposed to be one of happiness turned into a nightmare for Josephinewhen she came to give birth to her daughter San Borja Hospital. Negligent attention caused suffocation of your baby and left her with serious consequences. Now, she must be compensated with more than $1,000 million pesos.
The woman arrived at around 10:00 in the morning. April 16, 2017 to the hospital emergency room, due to the contractions of her 41 weeks of pregnancy. She was cared for by him Gynecologist and obstetrician Matias Ignacio Solari Diazwho gave him a drug to start laborLa Tercera reported.
The mother knew that she could have difficulties for a natural birth, due to his medical history. Hours passed, she felt severe pain and they detected a drop in the baby’s heartbeat. Josephine was calling for help and the staff only managed to break the membrane to speed up the process. The amniotic fluid was emptied and the wait continued.
The mother begged for a cesarean section, because she knew her daughter was suffering. They denied it and according to the court ruling in the case, Six hours passed without the doctor seeing her.. Even when they took his statement regarding the complaint, among other explanations, he said that he had gone to “pee.”
Just at 2:00 in the morning, that is, around 16 hours after arriving at the hospitalJosephine underwent a procedure, however, the nightmare was just beginning.
What happened there, She described it as “torture.”. After endless minutes of pushing and making superhuman efforts, The doctor approached him and told him that he had failed. and that only then would he resort to forceps to force the bus out.
The baby was left bedridden and with serious after-effects
The baby, named Josephine like her mother, was born at 2:28 and, due to asphyxiation caused by the procedure, spent the next three months hospitalized, with 13 pathologies diagnosed.
The girl is now seven years old and according to the court’s ruling “she suffers from extremely serious brain damage, which It leaves her prostrate, blind, deaf, without cognitive capacity, without motor capacity, without the ability to feed herself physiologically.with lung damage that forces her to be oxygen dependent for life, as consequences of grade III hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.”
After appealing to the courts, the 26th Civil Court of Santiago finally ruled in favor of the girl and her mother and ordered that the Central Metropolitan Health Service, the San Borja Hospital, the doctor Solari and a midwife must pay a total of $1,042,691,340. This is the second highest compensation ever awarded by a court in the country.
Josephine’s lawyer, Héctor Musso, told the aforementioned media that the amount “will help to cope with the treatments that the little girl will need for life” and also, feel a relief. “direct and crude reproach of the obstetric violence that my client suffered and that women suffer daily in this country.” at the time of delivery.”
