Decapitated in womb during by doctor, inquiry is told

0 The incident took place in Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital A, came face to face with Laxman in court and told her: “I don’t forgive you – I don’t forgive you” as the doctor stared down at the floor. The patient looked away as Dr Laxman’s QC apologised on her behalf.

The hearing was told the tragedy occurred on March 16 2014 whilst Dr Laxman was working at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee with a team of other doctors.

The woman’s waters had broken early at 25 weeks and uponexaminationherunborn baby was found to have a prolapsed cord. In evidence Patient A, who was holding two teddy bears in her arms, told the hearing it was the first time she was due to give birth: “I had been for a scan the previous Friday and I was told my son was breech and the nurse told me if anything had happened to my son it was going to be a C-section.

“But when I was taken to the labour suite nobody told me what was happening. “I said to them ‘it doesn’t feel right, stop it, what’s going on, I don’t want to do it’ but nobody responded to me.

“Afterwards I was in a cubicle with a curtain around me and the sister came over to me and told me my son had passed away. I didn’t know the details. Dr Laxman sat on the side of my bed and she said how sorry she was for what happened but I didn’t know the full extent of what happened at that point.”

A lawyer for the General Medical Council, Charles Garside QC, said: “The choice was taken by Dr Laxman to try a vaginal delivery and this was the wrong choice. New babies are fragile, but this tiny baby was more fragile, and being pulled or twisted could do a lot more damage.”

Dr Laxman, who faces being struck, off denies contributing to the death of the baby. Her lawyer, Gerard Boyle QC, said: “She was trying to do was her very best to deliver your baby quickly and sufficiently and she had best intentions at heart.”