Penafiel hospital must pay more than €100,000 in compensation to family of young person who died from a brain tumour
The victim reportedly went to A&E 10 times without the tumour being diagnosed. The hospital unit will appeal the decision.
Baby's death: €6,000 fine for convicted doctors
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.
"Everything pointed to a healthy child": mother of boy born with heart on the wrong side speaks of her anger
This week's 'Doa a Quem Doer' reveals a case of medical negligence where health professionals failed to detect any malformations in the ultrasounds of Diana, the mother of Lourenço, and the boy was born with his heart on the wrong side, lacking ribs and with a lung that cannot expand.
