English translation from Portuguese site:
Transfusion of blood ends in aggression to doctor
15/11/2006 09:18:30 - newspaper A Gazeta
What is worth more before an impasse in the a patient's treatment: the will of the family or the doctor's decision? The polemic was taken to the last consequences, yesterday in a hospital of Cariacica, and the case went stop in to police.
Manager Elza Amâncio Viana, 30 years, she gave entrance in the Hospital Saint John Baptist, in Cariacica, with beginning of spontaneous abortion. The husband, Gilson, accompanied the wife and he/she asked to the doctors that she didn't receive transfusion of blood, because both belonged to the congregation Jehovah's Witnesses and they didn't admit the medical procedure.
However, gynecologist P.C.V. - that asked for not having the disclosed name - it was work in the hospital and he decided to accomplish the transfusion to guarantee the patient's life. The husband of Elza, inconformado, broke into the pre-childbirth room, where she was assisted, and he attacked P.
Gilson justifies the attitude saying that lost the head when he saw the woman receiving blood, even after having informed the hospital about its decision.
" My wife was pregnant of 12 days, but nor she knew. She had an abortion beginning, I took it in two hospitals before arriving to the Hospital Saint John Baptist. If they didn't have structure for another procedure, they should have informed me, because I would take it for another hospital ", he said.
On the other hand, the doctor guarantees that that era the only alternative in the moment. According to him, the patient's life was in risk and there was not time to lose.
I " have the back-up of the Code of the Medical Ethics. The hospital could be accused of medical negligence and omission of help if it left the patient to die for lack of the transfusion ", he affirmed.
The case will continue in the Court.The doctor affirms that will sue Gilson. The religious person says that the congregation also analyzes the possibility to sue the hospital.
The version of each one
I " heard her screaming and I lost the head "
Gilson Viana - 30 years, the patient's husband
I " heard my wife me screaming and I lost the head. I broke into the door and I saw her if beating, with bags of blood to the side. I gave a punch in the doctor's nape and he/she said that he would have to inform me. I broke the hoses that took the blood until her, but it was already late. She is very affected. He/she said that is feeling violentada. The Bible says that the blood is life and the life can only be given for heaven's sake. She had already suffered other two abortions. The first was five years ago and the other there is not very more than two years. In none of the two previous situations she received transfusion of blood ".
I " considered the patient's " life first
P.C.V. - attacked gynecologist
I " considered, in first place, the patient's life. She arrived with a shock caused by an intense vaginal sangramento, due to an incomplete abortion. In the moment, there was not, in the hospital, other treatment besides the transfusion of blood. She took death risk. The patient was unconscious and she only woke up when it was stabilized. Her husband invaded the pré-childbirth room, he/she attacked me physically and he/she attacked verbalmente other employees. It had never gone by a situation as that. He will answer for its acts. I will enter with an action in the Court ".