The newborn from Novi Sad went through hell: They didn't want to give birth to her until the morning, and she had a ruptured uterus

On June 14, Aleksandra Vudrag scheduled a caesarean section in Betania, Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics in Novi Sad.

They did not keep her that day, as stated in the medical records in which she was placed portal 021 had insight, admission to the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics is scheduled for June 17.

Aleksandra previously had fibroid surgery, but also a caesarean section during her first birth several years ago.

The contractions started on the same day, just a few hours after the scheduled delivery, so Aleksandra returned to the maternity ward on the night between June 14 and 15.

Childbirth can wait

Her doctor wasn't working then, and the doctor on call told her that "morning is smarter than evening."

"I know she told me that she would give me bensedin first, so that I don't have a lot of pain, 'to clear the crowd'." "I thought it was all preparation for a caesarean section," she says for 021

He believes that the doctor who "waited for the morning, must have been waiting for the second shift".

Instead of being delivered at the scheduled time, she was left in pain and tension for more than five hours, when her uterus burst in excruciating pain.

"There were abnormal pains, it cannot be described." They weren't contractions. That was probably when the uterus ruptured. No one was there in the antenatal room, neither nurse nor doctor, nobody. I was alone. I know that then I screamed for someone to appear there," says Aleksandra.

The staff gathered around her only then. After the rupture of the uterus and indescribable pain, she had to have an emergency caesarean section, and the doctors did not hear the heartbeat of the child during the ultrasound.

"When I woke up, I asked about the baby and was told that my pediatrician would tell me." When I came to, I called my husband and found out over the phone what happened. I didn't see the baby at all, I saw him for the first time in the picture. No one specifically told me what and how, they only said uterine rupture," she says.

In the List for the newborn in which it is  portal 021 iAccording to the report, the child was born without a heartbeat and cardiopulmonary resuscitation was performed.

Report against Bethany

Due to this treatment and serious consequences, Aleksandra Vudrag submitted a proposal to file a criminal complaint.

As she states in the application, although she does not have the medical and legal education to evaluate the work of doctors and legally qualify the crime, she is aware of the "unjustified physical and psychological attack" on her body and the "gross violation of the right to dignity and life", as well as the "unconscionable doctor's actions and negligence in providing medical assistance".

The Protector of Citizens reacted as well, who launched an examination procedure to assess the legality and regularity of the work of the Ministry of Health.

Prokuplje: Baby died two days after birth

Another case of obstetric violence happened recently in Prokuplje.

The parents of a baby who died just two days after birth at the Niš University Clinical Center filed a criminal complaint against the staff on duty at the maternity ward of the General Hospital in Prokuplje, for negligent provision of medical care, he announced. RTS.

The police informed the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Prokuplje about this report, and the Prosecutor's Office states that preliminary investigations and determination of the factual situation are underway.

In the Prokuplje Health Center, to which the Prokupa hospital belongs, they told us that they are also monitoring this case.

The baby was born on August 28 in the maternity hospital in Prokupa, and after birth, due to her severe condition, she was urgently transferred to Niš. She died on August 31 at the Niš University Clinical Center, which ordered an autopsy on the baby, the results of which are still unknown.

Black series of accusations

This is just another in a series of accusations of obstetric violence in Serbia.

This news came on the same day that it was announced that investigation against the doctor of the General Hospital in Sremska Mitrovica MM (45) from Ruma, who is charged with obstetric violence against a woman in labor, has not yet been completed.

Let us remind you, the gynecologist who was arrested on January 20 of this year, he was released from detention after six months, because the prosecution did not file an indictment.

His arrest came after the public accusations of Marica Mihajlović from Sremska Mitrovica, who announced that in January 2024 she experienced obstetric violence during childbirth, after which her baby died.

After that, doctor MM was arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime of "serious crime against people's health", and after six months he was released from custody because the Prosecutor's Office did not file an indictment.

Source: 021.rs