A young woman died of shock caused by “excruciating pain” after giving birth when “an inexperienced obstetrician forcefully yanked out her baby’s placenta”
Alisa Tepikina, 22, beamed as she saw her baby daughter Anna for the first time, but was left screaming in agony shortly afterwards and died as a medic ‘tugged’ the umbilical cord.
The placenta did not separate from her inverted uterus in the normal way, according to evidence in the case in Nizhneserginskaya in Sverdlovsk region of Russia.
Alisa’s father Dmitry Malyukov, 47, said: “We have been told that the ‘birth’ of the placenta did not occur. The midwife called in a doctor. The obstetrician, aged 27 and recently qualified, began to pull the umbilical cord roughly.
“My daughter was suffering, she was screaming in pain. But the doctor paid no attention.” The family have friends working in the hospital, who witnessed what happened and gave evidence to police, he said.
”She tugged the umbilical cord with real force – the uterus was inverted,” he said. Alisa screamed so loud that she could be heard throughout the hospital.
This caused a pain shock, severe bleeding, and she fell into a coma.
It was revealed that Alisa suffered a cardiac arrest.
The medic involved in the case had been suspended and she admitted her hospital faced a criminal investigation over the case.
Manual removal of the placenta could have been done under general anaesthetic or surgery might have been required, he said.
Alisa’s grandmother Lyudmila said: “I called the hospital and asked if Alisa saw her daughter before she died.
“It was important for me to know. They told me what she had seen her child, and smiled.”