The city of Sotibal (south of the Portuguese capital Lisbon) recently witnessed a strange birth of a male baby named Rodergo, with no nose and no eyes, missing a part of the skull, sparking debate in Portuguese public about the feasibility of medical follow-up on women during pregnancy, prompting the deanship of doctors Portuguese to suspend the activity of the doctor who continued to carry the baby's mother.
According to the French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur, the birth situation has confused the whole of Portugal, and the doctor who supervised the follow-up of the mother's pregnancy became accused of negligence and indifference for failing to detect birth defects that appeared on the infant before birth.
The deanship of Portuguese doctors issued a decision last Tuesday to suspend the activity of the doctor for six months during a disciplinary council to consider the failure to address the possible repercussions of the incident on the reputation of doctors in the country.
Investigation
The deanship of doctors opened in parallel with the decision to suspend the activity of the doctor to investigate the circumstances of his failure to detect birth defects of the infant during pregnancy, after it turned out that the doctor has precedents in professional failure, and has already six patients filed calls against him for various reasons.
"There are strong indications of a failure by the doctor who followed the baby's pregnancy, and we can take disciplinary action against him," the head of the Portuguese physician's office, Alexander Valentin, said. Reassurance to pregnant women. "
The doctor charged three ultrasound on the mother's mother during pregnancy without detecting abnormalities on the fetus, justified by the disappearance of some aspects of the face of the fetus if adhered to the mother's abdomen during the examination.