Newborn triplets died without a diagnosis. In Rostov-on-Don, newborn triplets died one after another Death of triplets in the perinatal center
In Rostov-on-Don, two criminal cases were opened in one day on the fact of the death of newborns. The first case concerns the death of the Samoylenko triplets, who died in intensive care a month after birth. Parents accuse employees of the Rostov Regional Perinatal Center of causing death by negligence.
“The investigator ordered the necessary forensic medical examinations in order to establish the causes of death of newborn children,” said the representative for the Rostov region.
In his appeals, he asked not to allow his other children to die. The letters of the restless spouse were sent to the government of the Rostov region and.
At the end of August, it became known about the death of the other boys: they almost simultaneously died in intensive care. “I got the impression that with each of my children they waited until the very last, until the health of the children becomes critical,” said a resident of Taganrog.
In the medical cards of triplets, there are dashes in the column “cause of death”. The mother of the kids claims that her children could not even be diagnosed.
Employees of the Rostov Regional Perinatal Center refused to communicate with journalists, citing "medical secrecy." They only noted that "the birth of children from multiple pregnancy It's always a risk group. Moreover, experts emphasized that the newborns had chronic diseases - endometritis and pyelonephritis. “As for the claims against resuscitators, I can report that I have conducted an internal investigation. Explanatory notes were taken from these doctors and from the head of the department. No violations related to the dishonest performance of professional duties have been identified, ”said Valery Bushtyrev, head physician of the Rostov Regional Perinatal Center.
The answer of the management of the special maternity hospital did not suit the parents. They are convinced that doctors are to blame for the death of their children: “If there were any problems during pregnancy, then why didn’t the doctors tell us anything back then?” The woman also asked to involve experts from Murmansk in the investigation. She is convinced that the Rostov forensic medical examination bureau is located in the same region, and also in close proximity to the perinatal center, and therefore there may be an interest in the outcome of the case. The family is ready to pay all expenses for an independent examination.
The director of the Institute of Health told Gazeta.Ru that such deaths are not uncommon. “Perinatal centers are being created for mothers with complicated pregnancies and health-related problems. For such organizations, the death of a newborn is not something supernatural. It is there that difficult cases flock: there the risk of death is higher, ”she believes.
Popovich is sure that every fatal case should be investigated. However, the expert noted, such incidents happen regularly in Russia.
“We are not gods, and the infant mortality rate in the country is 6.9 per 1,000 live births. In the Rostov region, where there are many migrants or mothers who are registered late, this figure rises to 20 children per thousand,”
the expert explained.
At the same time, it is noted that infant mortality in Russia as a whole is declining. If in 2012 the infant mortality rate was 8.6 per 1000 births, then by 2017 it had decreased by more than 40%. “To date, the levels of infant and maternal mortality have reached historic lows in our country. Let me remind you that according to the forecasts for 2009-2010, we planned to reach 7.5 in 2020 (taking into account the transition to international live birth criteria). However, over the past five years, infant mortality has decreased by more than 40%, and in January-February 2017 it reached 5.0 per thousand live births,” the Minister of Health recently said.
Didn't get a policy
Victoria found out about the triplets at the 12th week of pregnancy. She was sent to the perinatal center in Rostov-on-Don. The woman underwent all the necessary studies - the kids developed normally.
There was only one moment that the doctors warned us about. Aleksey and Dima were in the same placenta, and Lesha could have problems, because he didn’t have enough food, he couldn’t keep up with his brother. In such situations, an operation to remove the fetus may be required, but the danger has passed,
said the husband of Victoria Alexander.
Childbirth has begun ahead of schedule- at the 32nd week. An ambulance took the woman to the Taganrog maternity hospital. There, the necessary tests were taken from her and then transferred to the Rostov perinatal center. However, there was a slight hitch. Victoria is a citizen of Ukraine, and she did not have a policy. Doctors began to perform a caesarean section only when they were convinced that the woman would pay for the birth.
The boys were born weighing 1150, 1350 and 1550 grams. They were immediately placed in intensive care, and six days later they were transferred to the department of pathology of newborns and premature babies, as they were already breathing and eating on their own.
Later, the kids were diagnosed with enterocolitis - inflammation of the large and small intestines. Parents were assured that this is normal for premature babies. And on August 1, one of the doctors let slip that a pathogenic organism was found in the blood of one of the boys, but did not explain which one and how to treat the baby, writes 161.ru.
Ointment for convulsions
On August 9, Samoylenko noticed that Dima looked unhealthy - he began to spit up after eating, did not scream, he began to have convulsions. In addition, the mother found strange sores behind the baby's ear and told the doctor about everything. On the same day, doctors bathed the children, and after that Dima was placed in a separate incubator and an ointment was prescribed for him. On August 10, he became worse.
They constantly took blood from him, but nothing else was done. On August 14, I could not stand it: I called my husband with tears and complained that the child was ill, and the doctors were not doing anything. The husband arrived, made a scandal and asked to involve other specialists in the treatment of his children. The doctors replied that they the best specialists ,-shared Victoria.
As a result, Dmitry was diagnosed with pneumonia, he was transferred to intensive care and connected to a ventilator. A day later, Alexei was also placed there. They explained this by the fact that he was in the same placenta with Dima, and he could also get worse. Ilya was still with his mother.
They tried to treat the older boy with antibiotics. At first he got better - he began to gain weight, then the condition worsened again. On August 22, Dima fell into a coma, a day later he died in front of his mother. Alexey died on August 28, and Ilya died the next day.
“I got the impression that with each of my children they waited until the very last, until the children’s health becomes critical,” said Samoylenko.
Triplets at risk
The Rostov Perinatal Center refused to comment on the situation, citing medical secrecy. Doctors explained to Victoria Samoilenko herself that the birth of children from a multiple pregnancy is a risk. In addition, according to them, the patient was underweight, she suffered from chronic endometritis and pyelonephritis, as well as cervical erosion.
“As for your claims against resuscitators, I can report that I have conducted an internal investigation. Explanatory notes were taken from these doctors and from the head of the department. No violations related to dishonest performance of professional duties have been identified, ”Valery Bushtyrev, head physician of the Rostov Perinatal Center, told Victoria.
However, Victoria herself claims that the doctors did not tell her anything about her health problems and did not even see her outpatient card. The couple turned to the investigation department of the head office of the ICR for the Voroshilovsky district of Rostov. Investigators promise to investigate.
"They get away with everything"
Residents of Rostov-on-Don note that this is not the first such case in the Rostov Perinatal Center.
"The perinatal center has long been famous for such infant deaths."
“This is not the first death of babies in the center of Bushtyrev, so now his wife has opened a private medical center, Kushnarev (the mayor of Rostov-on-Don. - Note by Reedus) cut the ribbon, there, too, children will die, because the doctors are the same and The same? And they get away with everything!”
“Multiple pregnancies and low body weight is a delusional explanation. Another tragedy on the conscience of doctors.
In Rostov-on-Don, a couple from Taganrog lost three newborn children. On July 17, a resident of Taganrog, Victoria Samoylenko, gave birth to triplets Dmitry, Alexei and Ilya. A month later, they died in intensive care.
Didn't get a policy
Victoria found out about the triplets at the 12th week of pregnancy. She was sent to the perinatal center in Rostov-on-Don. The woman passed all the necessary studies - the kids developed normally.
There was only one moment that the doctors warned us about. Aleksey and Dima were in the same placenta, and Lesha could have problems, because he didn’t have enough food, he couldn’t keep up with his brother. In such situations, an operation to remove the fetus might be required, but the danger has passed, said Victoria's husband Alexander.
Labor began prematurely - at the 32nd week. An ambulance took the woman to the Taganrog maternity hospital. There, the necessary tests were taken from her and then transferred to the Rostov perinatal center. However, there was a slight hitch. Victoria is a citizen of Ukraine, and she did not have a policy. Doctors began to perform a caesarean section only when they were convinced that the woman would pay for the birth.
The boys were born weighing 1150, 1350 and 1550 grams. They were immediately placed in intensive care, and six days later they were transferred to the department of pathology of newborns and premature babies, as they were already breathing and eating on their own.
Later, the babies were diagnosed with enterocolitis - inflammation of the large and small intestines. Parents were assured that this is normal for premature babies. And on August 1, one of the doctors let slip that a pathogenic organism was found in the blood of one of the boys, but did not explain which one and how to treat the baby, writes 161.ru.
Ointment for convulsions
On August 9, Samoylenko noticed that Dima looked unwell - he began to spit up after eating, did not scream, he began to have convulsions. In addition, the mother found strange sores behind the baby's ear and told the doctor about everything. On the same day, doctors bathed the children, and after that Dima was placed in a separate incubator and an ointment was prescribed for him. On August 10, he became worse.
They constantly took blood from him, but nothing else was done. On August 14, I could not stand it: I called my husband with tears and complained that the child was ill, and the doctors were not doing anything. The husband arrived, made a scandal and asked to involve other specialists in the treatment of his children. The doctors answered that they had the best specialists, Victoria shared.
As a result, Dmitry was diagnosed with pneumonia, he was transferred to intensive care and connected to a ventilator. A day later, Alexei was also placed there. They explained this by the fact that he was in the same placenta with Dima, and he could also get worse. Ilya was still with his mother.
They tried to treat the older boy with antibiotics. At first, he got better - he began to gain weight, then the condition worsened again. On August 22, Dima fell into a coma, a day later he died in front of his mother. Alexey died on August 28, and Ilya died the next day.
“I got the impression that with each of my children they waited until the very last, until the health of the children becomes critical,” said Samoylenko.
Triplets at risk
The Rostov Perinatal Center refused to comment on the situation, citing medical secrecy. Doctors explained to Victoria Samoilenko herself that the birth of children from a multiple pregnancy is a risk. In addition, according to them, the patient was underweight, she suffered from chronic endometritis and pyelonephritis, as well as cervical erosion.
“As for your claims against resuscitators, I can report that I have conducted an internal investigation. Explanatory notes were taken from these doctors and from the head of the department. No violations related to the dishonest performance of professional duties have been identified, ”Valery Bushtyrev, head physician of the Rostov Perinatal Center, told Victoria.
However, Victoria herself claims that the doctors did not tell her anything about her health problems and did not even see her outpatient card. The couple turned to the investigation department of the head office of the ICR for the Voroshilovsky district of Rostov. Investigators promise to investigate.
"They get away with everything"
Residents of Rostov-on-Don note that this is not the first such case in the Rostov Perinatal Center.
"The perinatal center has long been famous for such infant deaths."
“This is not the first case of death of babies in the center of Bushtyrev, so now his wife has opened a private medical center, Kushnarev (the mayor of Rostov-on-Don. - Note by Reedus) cut the ribbon, children will also die there, because the doctors are the same and The same? And they get away with everything!”
“Multiple pregnancies and low body weight is a delusional explanation. Another tragedy on the conscience of doctors.
Published on 15.09.17 09:40Parents blame perinatal center doctors for the death of their children.
A resident of Taganrog named Victoria, who gave birth to triplets in the perinatal center of Rostov-on-Don, lost her newborn babies in one week.
According to the portal 161.ru, on July 17, the woman went into labor at the 32nd week of pregnancy. She was sent to the Rostov Regional Perinatal Center, where doctors dragged on until the last moment with the onset caesarean section, since Victoria is a citizen of Ukraine who did not have time to issue a policy. As a result, the operation was performed only after intcbatch after the doctors were convinced that the woman would pay for the birth.
As a result, premature boys weighing 1150, 1350 and 1550 grams were born. After six days of resuscitation and a week in the pathology department, the newborn babies were transferred to the ward with their mother.
According to doctors, the children were diagnosed with enterocolitis - inflammation of the large and small intestines, which, according to them, is typical for most premature babies.
On August 9, a young mother noticed that one of the boys looked unwell, he became lethargic and stopped screaming. The kid was isolated from his brothers, an ointment was prescribed, but he was getting worse. Doctors regularly took blood for analysis, but did nothing else.
On August 14, the child developed symptoms of pneumonia, he was connected to an artificial respiration apparatus. He was also given antibiotics. For some time, there was a positive trend in the state, but on August 23, the child died in front of his mother.
After the incident, Victoria's husband, Alexander, wrote statements to Rospotrebnadzor, the Ministry of Health, Roszdravnadzor and Rosgosstrakh. He asked to take action and prevent the rest of his children from dying. In response, he was told that they had sent letters to the government of the Rostov region and the regional prosecutor's office.
After the tragedy, Victoria admitted that she had the impression that in each case, the doctors waited until the last, until the condition of the children became critical.
"We blame the doctors for the death of our children. My husband and I have a lot of questions for them. If there were any problems during pregnancy, then why didn't the doctors tell us anything even then," the woman told reporters.
Representatives of the Rostov perinatal center declined to comment on the situation, citing medical secrecy. According to representatives of the institution, an internal investigation was carried out, and no violations were found in the actions of the employees.
The couple turned to the investigation department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Voroshilovsky district of Rostov.
Spouses Samoilenko from Taganrog accuse the doctors of the Rostov Regional Perinatal Center of negligence, lack of professionalism and indifference, which led to the death of three newborn babies.
This story began with very happy notes, but ended tragically. Mother of triplets Victoria Samoylenko told in an interview with the correspondent of the site how the tragedy happened and why the spouses blame the doctors for the death of their babies.
- Victoria, tell us how it happened that your babies could not be saved?
I would like to tell you a story with a happy ending, but, unfortunately, it will not work. Today I buried my three children.
My story began in 2014 when I arrived in Rostov from Lugansk. Here I met my husband, we recently celebrated the third anniversary of marriage. The husband really wanted children, and twins. On December 31, I found out that I was pregnant, and congratulated my husband on such New Year's gift. The ultrasound revealed that we would have triplets. At first we were shocked, but then we just started preparing for the birth of babies. We bought three strollers, ordered a large bed for triplets - everything you need for toddlers.
- How was your pregnancy?
Great. The doctors were very surprised when I came for an ultrasound, because, for example, at 6 months one child should weigh a kilogram, then all three of me weighed a kilogram. All was good. The only thing we were warned was that two twins were in the same placenta, and one in the other, so one baby received more nutrition from the mother than the other two. There were no pathologies or problems. All was good. They only warned that triplets could be born prematurely in any case, but this is not scary. Every two weeks I did an ultrasound on the recommendation of doctors.
- When did the birth start? Did everything go well?
The birth began ahead of schedule, as the doctors predicted, at 32 weeks and two days. My husband called an ambulance and I was first taken to a hospital in Taganrog. They put a dropper there, and then they brought me to Rostov. I had been in the regional perinatal hospital for four hours without amniotic fluid- they departed. I already panicked.
After that, a doctor and an anesthesiologist came in, who had such a dialogue in front of me: “So, what about her documents? She is not a citizen of Russia”? I replied that I was at the stage of obtaining citizenship. Now I have a TRP (temporary residence permit). If the children were born on time, then I would have time to get citizenship. Although it does not matter, because I was in their hospital and took all the tests for money, which I told them about. To this one doctor said to another:
"So what, I now give her an expensive injection, and she won't have the money to pay later"?
- Did this dialogue take place in front of you?
Yes, I was lying on a gurney, and they were discussing it. The doctor who later performed the caesarean section opened my card and said: “Yes, they sewed her up here, she paid 17 thousand rubles here, and here 13 thousand. She has money.” I was shocked and yelled for them to come out into the corridor. I said that my husband was there and he would give them money. Only after that they took me to the operating room.
- When were the babies born? Did everything go without complications?
I gave birth to my long-awaited triplets on June 17th. And it was not artificial, but lovingly planned twins, which turned out to be triplets on ultrasound. They were born in the Rostov Regional Perinatal Center with a normal weight, not 600 or 700 grams. Three boys were born by caesarean section at 32.2 weeks with a weight of 1150, 1350 and 1550.
The last, Ilyusha, was dying with a weight of 2350, and the rest were already almost 2 kilograms each.
- When the children were born, were they diagnosed with any diseases?
At first, the children were in intensive care, but after 5 days they were transferred to the department of pathology of newborns and premature babies, and then it began. The doctor said that they have enterocolitis - an inflammation of the intestines. And she added that this can happen in premature babies, because this is one of the diseases that often occurs. We have been treated for this. Then I noticed that Dima (the third was born) had some wounds behind his ear, like sores. I went to the doctors, and they said that this was a common diaper rash, then another doctor said that it was very bad and advised me to buy an ointment with zinc to dry the wounds. I rushed to the pharmacy in a taxi, bought an ointment right away to start treating. From that day on, the child became worse.
- Did the doctors examine all the kids after that?
Yes, others didn't. Children were given medicines and they could not be bathed, and then another came and said that they would bathe my babies, although this could not be done while taking these medicines. Perhaps it was possible to disconnect from the device that delivers the medicine, but I was just surprised, because I read that the medicine must be constantly supplied to the line, because these lines get clogged and there can be bad consequences. The very fact that no one is bathed, even if they ask, and my babies were bought on August 9 and all three were put in different places.
On August 13, when the manager came, I said that Dima was worse, he was pale, did not react to anything, even when they took his blood for tests, he did not cry. To which she replied: "What do you want, he is sick."
I called my husband, cried, told him that Dima was very ill, and the doctors were not doing anything. The husband came and started arguing with them. Both the doctors and the head herself came to the head's office and brought their lawyer for some reason. When my husband asked what happened to my children, they did not really answer him. To a clear question posed by my husband, we did not hear a clear answer. The doctor constantly spoke in vague phrases in her medical language, which we did not understand. As a result, she said the same thing as to me: "Children are sick."
On the same day, Dima was transferred to intensive care, and the next day they said that he had an infection and began a blood transfusion.
- Did the child get better?
No. On August 15, Dima was already given a blood transfusion and a bunch of drugs and antibiotics were poured into him. I started writing down everything that happens to the children in a notebook. Since there were three of them, in order not to miss anything, I always had a notebook at hand. I was even afraid to leave them alone, because once, when I went into my room, I saw nurse Ekaterina putting probes into the mouths of my boys without gloves, and I think this was not the first time.
Then I began to follow every movement of the staff. I ran from ward to ward because all my boys were lying separately. I was with Dima until his death. On August 23 at 9.48 he died in intensive care.
How did the doctors react to the death of the first baby? Did they begin to examine the remaining two boys more comprehensively?
A couple of days later, they transferred Lesha (the first baby) to the intensive care unit, where Dima was lying. They argued that Lesha and Dima were in the same placenta and there may be one disease for two. I am not a doctor and did not know that when a baby enters a coma, his brain turns off. The doctors knew this and continued to give hope that everything would be fine, although they were simply waiting for his death. It was then with the second and third that I realized that when a child sleeps with his eyes open in a coma, he will soon die. And when I started screaming, they told me that they had an intrauterine infection, so they were dying. The question arose, where did the virus come from? Why weren't viruses found right away? Such a negligent attitude shocked me, they did not hear and did not want to hear.
- Do you have any chronic diseases? Have you been registered in the hospital?
Of course not. All my tests for 8 months were in order. I have never been in a hospital with a chronic illness in my life. They didn't have any more treatment. If there were any diseases, I would have been warned during pregnancy.
- How did the kids feel?
Ilyusha was also transferred from the neonatal pathology ward to the intensive care unit. I went to them and looked at them. When I entered the children's room, I saw on the scoreboard that the heart rate (heart rate) fell below normal, but the nurses sat and chatted, did not hear, since the alarm was turned off when the child was in serious condition. And even if the staff knows that the child is dying, no one gives them the right to turn off the alarm. Perhaps due to an unheard signal, first aid was not provided.
I started screaming, the doctors came running and said that this was the second attempt to save the children. I held their hands and cried, and they looked at me as if asking for help. I was ready to die instead of them, if only they would live.
Have you turned to anyone else for help?
I asked for another doctor to be sent. Not because these do not work well, but just suddenly another doctor will understand how to save the kids, why they are dying. I wanted to save at least one.
Through clenched teeth, the doctor called someone and said: "Well, come and see. Here one has already died, and two still exist."
Is that what the doctor said on the phone?
Yes. Alyoshenka died on the same day. It was on August 28 at 16.02. And on August 29, at 9.42, the last one, Ilyusha, died. This pain is unbearable. It seemed to me that this was not true, since I saw all three deaths of my children and was with them until the last. After all, it does not happen (crying).
- What happened then, did you turn to someone for help in dealing with the death of your children?
Yes, after Dima's death, her husband turned to the police, Rospotrebnadzor, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Roszdravnadzor, the President of the Russian Federation and Rosgosstrakh, where the children were insured. We knocked on every door.
In his appeals, he asked to take action and prevent the rest of our children from dying. He was told that his letters had been forwarded to the government of the Rostov region and the regional prosecutor's office for investigation. But, unfortunately, they did not have time to save the remaining babies.
- When did you bury the kids?
Today we buried all our boys. I have never buried loved ones. Thank you to the lady at the mortuary who called and asked, "When are you picking up your kids for the funeral?" I was just in shock, because we were told that they would call after the examinations so that we could pick up the children. But it turned out that the children were lying there alone, and they should have been taken away a long time ago and no one informed us.
I was in the perinatal center from 17 to 29 August. When I was there, 10 children died. After being discharged, the girls reported that three more children had died. All children who died were diagnosed with intrauterine infection. Everyone.
For the death of my children, I blame the entire staff of the department of pathology of newborns and premature babies. I fought for their lives in the hospital until the last second and will fight to the end so that those responsible are punished. Maybe our struggle will help save the lives of children born.
