2024-08-01 17:35:54
The 17th Civil Court of Santiago sentenced the Indisa Clinic to pay a total of $1.448 million to the family of Gloria and Davor, becoming the highest medical compensation in the history of Chile.
On March 3, 2016, Gloria arrived at the Indisa Clinic to give birth to her son, after presenting a rupture of membranes, but medical negligence caused that should face a 32-hour labor.
The woman was hospitalized by her doctor, Alejandro Rubio, and the midwife Ruth Ochoa, who saw that her labor process began, but In the absence of contractions, they decided to give her antibiotics..
Gloria specified in her account to Justice, as detailed by La Tercera, that “The labor was slow, but ongoing, and they had to wait for it to continue.”so after fetal monitoring, she was referred to another sector of the Indisa Clinic.
However, the victim had a “profuse loss of amniotic fluid,” which was noted by midwife Ruth Ochoa, who assured her that this situation “did not pose a major problem.”It was only after Gloria and her partner complained that she was admitted to the operating room for a Caesarean section. This occurred 32 hours after her admission.
The problems her son presented after 32 hours of labor
This way, Gloria gave birth to Davor, who had to be urgently treated immediately as he was born “without respiratory effort”which is why resuscitation had to be performed and the patient subsequently intubated.
But Gloria and Davor’s ordeal did not end there, as the youngest He was diagnosed with “respiratory distress syndrome, transient tachypnea, neonatal depression, grade III hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, convulsive syndrome, hypotonic syndrome, and sucking-swallowing disorder.”
The consequences of the long labor caused severe neurological damage and left her with a 90% degree of disability, all caused by anoxia – which is a decrease in oxygen in the tissues and organs – due to the extensive labor.
In view of this situation, The 17th Civil Court of Santiago determined that Davor will need $2.3 million per month just in medical expenses, which will exceed $800 million in 30 yearsin addition to considering $150 million just in the remuneration that he will not be able to receive due to his disability.
Along with this, it was stipulated that he should receive 200 million for moral damages, the same amount for his parents, so sentenced the Indisa Clinic, the doctor and the midwife to pay a total of $1.448 million to the family of Gloria and Davor, making it the highest medical compensation in the history of Chile.