The King’s Attorney General at the Casablanca Court of Appeal ordered, last Monday, the opening of an investigation by the competent judicial services. This aims to shed light on the causes of these three deaths which occurred successively in the same clinic, particularly targeting those responsible for the maternity department and the anesthetists.
In its edition of Wednesday January 15, Assaba reports that the president of a human rights association brought these successive and similar deaths to the attention of the king’s prosecutor. This approach was initiated after the association was contacted by the husband of one of the victims. According to the latter, his wife had been followed regularly by a gynecologist who had not detected any health problems throughout her pregnancy. Her medical analyses, always normal, corroborated this state of health until the day of her delivery.
On the fateful day, she went to the clinic early in the morning, accompanied by members of her family. Once she entered the delivery room, she was given general anesthesia from which she never woke up. Transferred to intensive care after the operation, she died during the day.
The distraught medical staff allegedly hid the seriousness of the situation from the family for a long time, claiming that the patient was doing well and would wake up shortly. It was only in the evening that the family learned of his death, officially attributed to “complications”.
The husband of the deceased also reported that another woman, who came to give birth the same day in this clinic, died in similar conditions.
In the complaint filed by the human rights association, the previous death of a third woman in the same maternity ward of this private clinic in Casablanca is also mentioned.
Assaba concludes that this dramatic affair has taken an even more serious turn with the involvement of the Ministry of Health and several associations of health professionals, who want all light to be shed on these serious and repeated medical errors.
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