The doctor who was performing a caesarean section sewed her up after realizing that a premature baby, not even six months old, would be born from the birth, and suggested that she wait until the natural term of her pregnancy. December.
But now the woman is dying and the doctor and the clinic have ended up in the storm.
The incredible case of medical malpractice happened in India, at the civil hospital of Karimganj, in the state of Assam .
After the attempted caesarean, the woman remained in the hospital for a few days, but once she returned home she showed the symptoms of a dangerous septicemia and was hospitalized again, in conditions now considered very serious.
The incident sparked great protests, to the point that hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital, while the doctor, Dr. AK Biswas, was forced to barricade himself in his clinic to escape popular anger.
The woman's husband said that his wife had been hospitalized in severe pain and that after a few days of suffering it was the doctors who decided for a caesarean section.
The doctor told reporters that he was forced into emergency surgery by the woman's family . "But when I saw such a premature fetus, I couldn't go on," he justified himself.
(Unioneonline / lf)
