The parents’ suffering was indescribable: a doctor from the Vöcklabruck hospital had to answer for murder by gross negligence in Wels on December 29. A newborn baby suffered serious brain damage during a caesarean section two years ago and died eight days later. The mother also barely survived.
On December 29, a very unusual case will be heard at the Wels Regional Court: a gynecologist at the Vöcklabruck hospital must answer for murder by gross negligence and bodily harm by gross negligence.
Looking back on December 6, 2021
Lukas should have been born naturally at the Vöcklabruck clinic at the time. But disaster struck: after several attempts with the suction cup, an emergency caesarean section followed and Lukas suffered serious brain damage due to lack of oxygen. The newborn boy was taken to Salzburg University Hospital, where the machines were turned off a week later.
breach of duty of care
According to the report, a uterine rupture was the cause of Lukas’ death. The plaintiff accuses the doctor of grossly negligently causing Lukas’ death “in an unusual and conspicuous breach of his professional duty of care.”
‘Nothing can bring Luke back to us’
In addition, he is responsible for treatment errors and the persistent lack of information that mother Sabrina W. had a uterine rupture and only survived thanks to emergency surgery. Parents Stefan and Sabrina are happy that there will be a lawsuit, but in the end, as they told the “Krone”, all that remains is the sad conclusion: “Nothing can bring back our Lukas.”
Source: Krone
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