Cadiz/Seville, 2 mar (EFE).-Gemma F.M., the woman who has been victim of an alleged error doctor to be pregnant with twins and suffer a selective of the healthy fetus abortion, said, inter alia, feels “impotence and rage” for what happened and that he wished to “does not make it go unpunished” or repeated.
“Want to denounce it for that not to happen again.” Unfortunately I happened to me, but with a case is enough. “Do something, that’s what you call”, said in an interview with Efe this woman of 36 years and child educator.
Why has sued the case through the partnership of the patient advocate, in a claim in which his lawyer calls 214,000 euros as compensation.
Gemma tells that, after seven attempts of pregnant by fertilization in vitro, she and her husband were “very excited” with this, until the doctor detected that you one of the fetuses had severe heart disease which made survival impossible.
“With great sorrow and pain” and “for the sake of the fetus that was healthy and that was ill, so he would not suffer”, decided to carry out a selective abortion in the clinic of Seville concert with SAS.
When they arrived at the Center were surprised because, despite reports that carried, the gynecologist asked them first “which of the two was the sick fetus” and later “was a biochemical abortion”.
“We got a surprise, because the doctor was he,” tells Gemma, which ensures that, after doing an ultrasound, the gynecologist said that he knew what had to intervene. “My husband and I ask more than five times if I was sure”, she says.
Abortion was practiced on December 22 and two weeks later, when he went to the hospital in Cadiz, the gynecologist discovered that the fetus had died was healthy.
“I do not believe me”, said the woman, who then had to undergo another abortion and later, on 22 January, when he had already served more than six months of pregnancy, to expel the two dead fetuses.
Eva RodrÃguez, Medical Director of the El Sur-Atocha clinic of Seville, where according to the claim of the hit was carried out selective abortion that was unsuccessful, said EfE understands the emotional patient situation, Medical Center team is “very concerned” by “which has been able to happen”.
According to Rodriguez, the patient never has approached the clinic, or to claim or for any explanation, so noted that they only know the case by the press and they are trying to give with your medical history, to get more information with which to speak and be able to check if they have produced “some damage”.
In all selective abortions prior ultrasound is done to ensure that it acts on the affected fetus, as set forth in the Protocol of the clinic, whose Director has assured: “In twenty-five years have never had a problem or a complication of this type”.
