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C-section Results in Fatal Birth Injury
Doctors all over the world regularly perform cesarean sections every day, usually without any problems due to advances in modern medicine. However, an infant born at Shaktinagar District Hospital in India died last month due to a slip of the doctor’s surgical knife during a C-section. The surgeon cut a one-inch deep gash on the newborn’s head. According to The Times of India, the mother’s family filed a complaint with police, but the doctor states that the electricity went off in the operating room at the time that he made his surgical mistake. The surgeon admits that he did wound the baby with his surgical knife, and he reported following protocol by stitching the wound, administering saline and giving the newborn oxygen. However, the infant died that night. The superintendent of the hospital provides a differing account of the power outage, since he states that the power was never out…
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Jail Neglects Woman Giving Birth
Most women who file for medical negligence due to a birth injury or other birthing problem bring their suit against a hospital or other medical professional. Imka Pope, however, brings her medical negligence suit against the King County Jail, which allowed Pope to give birth alone, on the jail floor, 14 years ago. According to SeattlePi.com, Pope suffers from schizoaffective disorder. During a psychotic episode when she was off her medication, Pope fell asleep on a Metro bus bench. Police arrested the nine-months-pregnant Pope for trespassing, and six days later, she gave birth. Documents show that only one person on staff in the jail noted that Pope appeared pregnant, and her lawyers state that officers and nurses made little effort to treat her schizoaffective disorder. Pope alleges that on the day she gave birth, she asked for help from the guards. However, guards decided that she was not in imminent…
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Forceps Cause Newborn Skull Fracture
A newborn in Ireland died a week after his birth due to a brain injury caused by forceps used in the delivery process. Claire McGovern, the baby’s mother, arrived at the National Maternity Hospital with painful contractions. She was almost 40 weeks pregnant, and doctors attempted to assist a natural birth with forceps. When the birth failed to progress, nurses took the mother upstairs to undergo a Caesarean section. Sadly, baby Daniel McGovern suffered a non-depressed fracture of the skull and a subgaleal hemorrhage of the brain, and he died a week later. Dr. Declan Keane, an obstetrician at the hospital, reported that he had “no doubt the fracture was most probably due to forceps.” He also commented that the entire delivery process would be improved if the delivery rooms were on the same floor as the operating rooms. The hospital applied for funding to remedy this problem previously, but…
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