The parents of the baby who died during childbirth at the Hospital das Clínicas, in the south-central region of Belo Horizonte, say that their daughter’s heart was beating normally before she was removed from the womb. According to the lawyer in the case, there was negligence on the part of the hospital and evidence of obstetric violence.
“By the time they pulled her out, she blinked, she was moving. Her little heart, before leaving, was beating”, said the child’s father, Victor da Silva.
At seven months pregnant, and with high blood pressure, Ranielly Santos gave birth to her daughter, Emanuelly, induced on May 1st. During the procedure, she and her family claim that the newborn’s head was decapitated by one of the doctors present in the operating room.
“I am devastated. Every day, I cry. I can not sleep. Every day, I think about my daughter. I wanted her anyway. I knew she had little chance of life, but I wanted her,” her mother said.
According to Ranielly, the girl had a lung malformation, identified by cysts identified in imaging tests. Even at the risk of not surviving after delivery, the girl’s heart, according to her parents, was beating moments before the procedure.
Victor was with the woman throughout the procedure. He says he was surprised by the high dose of medication given to his partner, but claims that, at the beginning of the delivery, everything seemed normal, until the child began to be born.
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“They started pulling the child’s head with their hands, telling my wife to push, but she didn’t have the strength anymore. At the last moment they did that, a bunch of people came on top of her, held her, held me. They gave her general anesthesia, she fainted, the child just left, but she was already fainting, ”she said.
The husband despaired at what he saw and was even removed from the room by a security team. Ranielly says she was sedated after giving birth. When she woke up, she was given only her daughter’s body.
“I woke up, she said ‘Are you awake, mom? Let’s say goodbye to your daughter’. Then I brought her dressed, packaged ”, reported her mother.
Ranielly’s mother noticed that there were stitches along her granddaughter’s neck. “My mother saw the whole procedure. She opened the outfit, but they tried to stop my mother from opening the outfit, that’s when we saw that her neck was sewn, full of marks.”
For the lawyer representing the child’s family, there was negligence on the part of the hospital and points to evidence of obstetric violence.
“It was much more than a medical error, it was a life that was lost and almost that of the mother too. The mother was tied up during childbirth, she has several bruises all over her body. Since the first pregnancy, it had already been identified that she was unable to have a normal delivery. There were several sequential errors that caused this tragedy”, defended Jennifer Valente.
According to the family, hospital officials apologized for what happened and offered to pay all the child’s funeral expenses. They would also have proposed the delivery of a necropsy report that would indicate the cause of the baby’s death. The family, however, preferred to go to the police.
Since then, according to family members, no report or document has been handed over to the parents. The lawyer believes that the investigation will prove that there was a sequence of errors during childbirth.
“She said she was in a lot of pain. The doctor, in desperation, asked her ‘can I cut you?’. She took the instrument and cut it on both sides, without anesthesia, without anything. She has more than 60 stitches”, reported the lawyer.
The family is now asking for justice. “Even if it doesn’t make her come back, I hope it doesn’t happen to another mother what happened to me. I was treated like an animal, nobody respected me. It’s very sad,” said Ranielly.
The baby’s body is at the Instituto Médico-Legal (IML) for necropsy examinations, according to attorney Jennifer Valente, hired by the family to monitor the case. The forecast is that the body will be released this Monday (8) for burial.
