On December 14, 2022, the special line "102" in

Rivne

received a message from the doctors of the regional children's hospital about the death of a two-month-old girl who had a congenital malformation and died after surgery.

The communication department of the police of the Rivne region informs about this. 

Based on the results of the primary inspection and collected information, the police found out that the mother and daughter were admitted to the hospital on December 12.

The baby underwent a planned surgical intervention, after which the child died.

According to the medical certificate, the death of the two-month-old child occurred as a result of burn shock, thermal burn of 45% of the body of the I-III degree, obtained as a result of contact with a heating device in a medical facility.

Investigators of the Rivne RUP establish all the circumstances of the infant's death as part of the criminal proceedings opened under part 2 of Article 140 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (improper performance of professional duties by a medical worker that caused serious consequences to a minor).

The sanction of the article provides for restriction of liberty for a term of up to five years or deprivation of liberty for a term of up to three years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years.

Local journalist Oksana Kravets, in a post on Facebook, is convinced that the girl died due to the negligence of Rivne doctors.

"2-month-old Polinka and her mother went to the Rivne Regional Children's Hospital (department of neurosurgery) for a scheduled operation. During the operation, the baby was placed on a heated table and the skin was burned. 45% of the body was burned... The child was burned," she wrote in emotional post. 

"It's scary when there's an empty baby carriage in the apartment, and a house next to it. Help the parents survive all this, and even more help prove the guilt of the doctors. They are murderers! Medical facilities can win dozens of grants, receive tons of humanitarian aid, equipment, paint walls and talk about their achievements, but at the same time healthy children die within your walls... The prosecutor's office has already started a criminal investigation under Part 2 of Article 140," she added. 

Later, the Rivne Regional Children's Hospital expressed its position on the current situation on its page in the social network. 

"A two-month-old child was admitted to the Rivne Regional Children's Hospital with a complex congenital malformation of the nervous system. The child underwent emergency surgery. Unfortunately, the child died the next day. We express our condolences to the family. We ask everyone else to refrain from commenting on the official conclusions of the examination, regarding the final causes of the patient's death," the message reads. 

We will remind that earlier

in the Kyiv region, due to the negligence of doctors, a pregnant woman lived for a month with a dead child in her womb

.

A woman with cerebral palsy decided to have a second child and almost died herself.

Local doctors did not notice any problems in the development of the fetus.

In the fifth month of pregnancy, the mother herself had to be rescued. 

Read also: 

  • In Crimea, both the baby and the woman in labor died due to the negligence of the doctors

  • Obstetrical violence: in Lviv, an obstetrician-gynecologist was given the maximum punishment for negligence for the first time

  • In Kyiv, they reported the suspicion of an anesthesiologist, whose negligence killed a woman in labor

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