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The hospital unit says it did everything to properly monitor the young woman and emphasises that the doctors involved in the case continue to work at the institution.
The court found that during the labour the defendants displayed 'an attitude of disregard for the continuous and increasing signs of foetal distress'.
Two doctors were sentenced to pay a fine of €6,000 each for the death of a newborn at the Northern Maternal and Child Centre.
The court, which found proven “an attitude of disregard for the continuous signs” of “fetal distress”, holds that an earlier caesarean would have prevented the newborn's death.
The court found that, throughout the labour, the defendants displayed “an attitude of disregard for the continuous and increasing signs of foetal distress”.
The facts found to be proven state that the patient was admitted to the hospital unit on 20 March 2017 at 09:36 for induction of labour and was placed under monitoring.
The agonising legal battle for a brave young doctor who called out what she believed were serious medical malpractices at Faro Hospital has cleared one of the most unpleasant hurdles. The post Young ‘whistleblowing’ doctor absolved of defamation against Faro surgical director appeared first on Portugal Resident.
