A childbirth in Brazil went horrifyingly wrong when a doctor accidentally ripped off a newborn baby girl’s head during the delivery, according to The Straits Times.
An internal investigation has since been launched and the police are also investigating the incident.
What happened?
The New York Post reported that on 28 April, 33-year-old Ranielly Santos was admitted to the Hospital das Clinical in Belo Horizonte, where doctors had to induce labour due to complications in the mother’s condition.
In an attempt to pull the baby girl out from the mother’s womb, the doctor grabbed the baby’s head but in the process, decapitated the child by ripping her head off.
Santos’ husband witness the whole thing and saw his daughter dying in front of him, and he noted that the baby was alive at the time, and was blinding a moving before her head got ripped off.
Hospital “regrets” incident
Following the tragic and traumatic incident, the hospital released a statement and said that they deeply regretted the loss of the baby.
They said that the child was 30 weeks old at the time and before the botched delivery, the doctors had allegedly assessed the fetus to be suffering from several health issues that made her “incompatible for life”, including the malformation of her lungs.
They added that their medical staff had induced the baby’s birth as the mother’s condition was deteriorating at the time, with her blood pressure increasing as well as generalised edema.
The hospital also said that they have launched an internal investigation into the incident, adding that “an internal administrative process has been opened for investigation of the facts” and that they will be providing a report from the medical examination.
The body of the deceased baby is also presently with the authorities for investigations, and the family said that they will be planning for their daughter’s burial after getting her remains back.