The chairman of the Ordem dos Médicos (OM) explained this Wednesday that the obstetrician’s expulsion of a child born with malformations in 2019 from Setúbal was not only related to this case, but also to “five or six more.”
Miguel Guimarães spoke to Lusa after visiting the Beatriz Angelo Hospital in Loures (Lisbon area), where he was accompanied by the General Secretary of the Union of Independent Doctors, Roque da Cunha, and the leader of the National Federation of Doctors (FNAM) trade union. ) Tanya Russo.
Artur Carvalho is “categorically prohibited from engaging in any medical professional activity as of March 1, 2023, by the decision of the Supreme Council of November 29, 2022, which carried out the implementation of the said sanction,” according to a public notice published this Wednesday by the OM.
“The circumstances are not related to the fact that the case is more or less average, but to a serious error in the obstetric ultrasound performed in fundamental time,” said Miguel Guimarães.
The official recalled that “the lesions were not caused by a doctor”, emphasizing that they are congenital, but clarified that clinicians perform an ultrasound “to understand if there are serious changes that can attract attention so that the mother can decide, even in this case. you want to have a baby or you want to have an abortion.”
“This error has been assessed by the Disciplinary Council of the Southern Region. [da Ordem dos Médico]what gave him the punishment of expulsion, I think that was the final punishment not only for this case, but for the totality of cases that he already had,” he said.
The official also added that the Southern Region Disciplinary Board “evaluated five or six cases that existed against the doctor in question and generally imposed a penalty of expulsion, which was later ratified by the High Council.”
As part of the disciplinary procedure, OM states that the doctor, Artur Fernando Silverio de Carvalho, with professional license no. 18691, was given a disciplinary sanction of exception based on a decision issued by the Regional Disciplinary Council of the South on 23 March. November 2021″.
The child, Rodrigo, was born on October 7, 2019 at the San Bernardo Hospital in the Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal with several serious malformations such as missing eyes, nose and part of the skull, without the doctor Artur Carvalho, who performed the control ultrasound of the pregnancy, detected or reported parents about any problem.
The obstetrician who performed ultrasounds at a private Ecosado unit already had five ongoing complaints to the Medical Association, some from 2013.
In October of the same month, on the 18th, Miguel Guimarães, chairman of the Order of Physicians, announced that he would file a complaint with the Southern Regional Disciplinary Council in this case and “strongly demand the opening of the process.”
Four days later, the obstetrician informed the president that he had decided to suspend ultrasound during pregnancy until the conclusion of the processes under consideration by the Southern Disciplinary Council, which on that day determined the preventive suspension of the clinician for a period of six months.
The case of the faceless baby led the Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal to launch an investigation to determine whether all birth procedures were performed correctly.
According to this hospital department, the child’s mother’s pregnancy was not monitored at San Bernardo Hospital.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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