The Health Service of Castilla-La Mancha (Sescam) has been sentenced to compensate with 5.5 million euros the family of a girl who suffered birth damage and was tetraplegic when her mother gave birth at the Gutierrez hospital Ortega de Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real) in 2012.
The association The Patient Advocate announced Wednesday the sentence, which has established "the greatest compensation in the history of medical negligence in Spain for a series of medical errors," said the lawyer who has taken the case, Francisco Javier Fernández-Bravo.
The lawyer, who has been accompanied by the president of 'The Patient Advocate', Carmen Flores , and the mother of the girl who suffered the consequences of medical malpractice, APC , have released the details of this sentence.
Fernández-Bravo has commented that the sentence recognizes the right of the child and her parents to receive this important amount of money that Sescam and the insurers Zürich and Mapfre must pay, as a consequence of the serious consequences caused by medical errors during childbirth.
The sentence condemns both the gynecologist and the midwife who attended the delivery for a crime of "serious professional imprudence injuries."
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