An eight-month-old baby was wounded by a stray bullet while still in his mother’s stomach, and a 15-year-old boy who was outside her home was shot and killed by gunmen who began shooting on 14th Street in San Jose. area of the city of Imperatriz in the Brazilian state of Maranhao and shot her several times, especially in the stomach. One of the shells hit the baby, who was due to be born only a month later, and the birth had to be urgently rescheduled so that doctors could try to save mother and daughter.
A team of surgeons and other doctors from the high-risk maternity hospital in Imperatriza, a city 629 km from Maranhão’s capital, Sao Luis, where the teenage girl ended up in a desperate race against time, delivered the baby and then operated on it. child removing a bullet that had entered one of his legs and was lodged in a complex area where arteries and other important structures pass. The delicate surgery was led by orthopedic surgeon Robson Pereira and accompanied by a large team, and the teenage mother and young child remained in hospital recovering later this week.
Tania Mara do Nascimento, coordinator of the intensive care unit (intensive care unit) at the maternity hospital, said the operation, which technically went well, was quite difficult, both because it was an early birth after severe trauma and because she had recently The baby born must undergo another delicate surgical procedure soon after birth. According to the doctor, only in the medium and long term will it be possible to say whether the baby had any consequences due to the anticipation of childbirth or the violent trauma she suffered, but initial observation and examinations were carried out after the premature birth and the operation reassured the doctors.
“The operation was risky and took about two hours. It was a very difficult operation, since the bullet hit the side of the left thigh, where important arterial structures pass through. If the bullet had been positioned any higher, it could have entered the femoral artery and caused hemorrhage, which could have led to the death of the child. Regarding the neurological consequences due to prematurity and the orthopedic part, this is a process that we will monitor in the long term, but since there was no damage to any important structures. I think this was a good forecast.