A newborn died after two doctors scuffled while the mother was in labor and Brazilian authorities said on Thursday they are investigating to determine whether the delivery room fight caused the death or contributed to it.
The two doctors were fired by the public hospital in the city of Ivinhema, but investigators have not determined whether the fight played a role in the death, Ivinhema Health Secretary Sonia Garcao said.
Garcao would not comment on what caused the fight. But Globo TV said witnesses reported one doctor got angry early on Tuesday morning because the other doctor was summoned to deliver the baby for 32-year-old Gislaine de Matos Rodrigues even though he was not scheduled to be on duty.
Witnesses said the baby died of asphyxiation following complications, Globo TV reported.
One of the doctors told Globo TV there was a fight in the delivery room, but blamed his colleague.
“I didn’t get in a fight with him,” Sinomar Ricardo said. “He got into a fight with me.”
Rodrigues said she was terrified when the fight broke out.
“I asked them to stop fighting and help me,” she told Globo TV. “One of the nurses came to protect me and console me.”
A third doctor took over the delivery after hospital security guards removed the fighting doctors, Rodrigues said.
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