A doctor is convicted of destroying the intestine of a pregnant woman in an abortion and then losing the fetus

The operation was very simple.

Fifteen minutes of curettage to empty the woman, whose fetus, three months pregnant, had lost its heartbeat.

That night was December 24,

, at the Nuevo Belén clinic in Madrid.

Just the name of the woman, Belén,

Hours later, with the patient still wide open in the operating room, the doctor - the same one who had previously told the woman that "we had to do a holistic burial of the fetus" - "yelled at my family that she I wasn't to blame for what had happened, I was running around like crazy, I had completely lost control.” Meanwhile, another surgeon and another medical team tried to fix the mess.

The fetus that had to be buried "holistically" never appeared, but what did make an appearance was an absolute destruction in Belén's belly.

By opening the wall of the reproductive system with

's tweezers , a tool used to carry out this type of maneuver, the doctor had broken his intestines and removed the loops from it.

She had punctured the walls of her uterus and rectum.

The life of Belén, 35 years old at the time, changed suddenly.

She spent six months hospitalized, with the excretory system destroyed.

.

She can't go more than four hours without going to the bathroom.

Sometimes, this operation catches him walking, in the middle of the mountain, wherever.

“And I am relieved, I am relieved, anywhere,” she cries.

She has constant abdominal pain and will have it for as long as she lives.

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"It's hell," says Belén.

“At first I cried for hours, now only minutes.

Your life disappears.

Nothing remains.

I had to move house, from a third to a ground floor, because I couldn't climb stairs.

You no longer work, they gave me permanent disability.

By not working, you lose your footing and you lose people, your circle.

.

Well, and you stop being a lady from Madrid who doesn't talk about her waste.

They become an important part of your life.

Now I've learned to get into the shower with dirty clothes, whatever.

Imagine how I am."

In her other existence, Belén was coordinator of a postgraduate course in

at a Madrid university.

She worked in communication at the

agency .

Not anymore.

"For people to understand, it's like you always have a very ugly virus in your gut."

And the squeezes were part of the routine.

Several times a day.

Out of control.

The Court of

has now condemned, eight years later, the doctor, whose name responds to the initials

, and the medical company to pay 294,000 euros for the disaster caused to Díaz, who chained a rosary of surgeries later, he came to poop 20 times a day.

A compensation that seems, by the way, ridiculous: "I didn't want money, I wanted her to recognize that she has ruined my life, that was enough for me."

Beside her, her husband,

, blurts out: "What they did to her was incredible. A doctor from the hospital even said a phrase to me that stuck with me. He said: 'What they have done to your wife is as if You are going to operate on her tonsils and you do it through the vagina, it's outrageous like that'".

The doctor went so far as to say that the fetus had broken through the wall of the uterus on its own and had shot out into the abdomen.

"It was not only almost Christmas Eve, it was also the weekend," Belén begins her story, taking place on December 23, 2014. "That's why, once they saw that the fetus had no heartbeat, they put me in a room again Belén and they gave me the medicine to expel it, but there were no nurses who came to check if that was happening".

A day later, already on the 24th, "we were still there, I was beginning to feel overwhelmed after almost 30 hours without sleep, and I asked Regina if we could do the abortion, not chemical, but physical. "She said that she preferred it, because it had a culture of natural childbirth.

That's when she told me that we had to bury the fetus, put it in a shroud... All of that began to seem very strange to me."

Belén entered the operating room "at eleven o'clock at night on December 24... And I already saw that something was going to go wrong. We were in a basement, all in the dark, just Regina, a nurse and the anesthesiologist. they told me it was going to be fifteen minutes.

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The doctor, as it was later proven in court, invaded the patient's digestive system with the pliers: "She lost her papers and went crazy, she thought she was killing me. She came out and told my husband that the fetus had been shot into the abdomen. I couldn't find it. They put me in an emergency room surgeon and that saved my life. Dr.

came in with a team of six people, and they were the ones who saved me. This woman went so far as to say that it was the fetus that I had broken the wall, imagine. I know that they clashed in the operating room. If I were to continue in her hands, I would be dead now, for sure."

When she woke up, in another hospital because she had to be evacuated, Belén was already carrying the bag that has become part of her life.

"Actually, they shouldn't even have done the curettage, because I'm sure I had released the fetus with the chemistry. This woman has come to give five versions of what happened, all of them exculpatory... It's a real shame," he concludes Belén Díaz, who has been assisted in her claims by the lawyer

, on behalf of the Patient Ombudsman Association.

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