An unborn baby was decapitated in his mother’s womb as a result of a bungled delivery by an NHS consultant gynaecologist, a medical tribunal heard.
Dr Vaishnavy Laxman, 41, should have given her patient, at Ninewells hospital in Dundee, an emergency caesarean section because the premature infant was in a breech position but instead attempted to carry out the delivery naturally, it was alleged.
I predicted something like this would happen. Well I’m sure I wasn’t the only one. How sad
This has happened before.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/665013/ninewells-expert-guilty-of-medical-misconduct-over-baby-decapitation/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/10/baby-decapitated-botched-delivery-tribunal-told-nhs-dundee
This was in Dundee, Scotland in 2018.
She is now a "doctor to the stars".
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/758559/former-dundee-medic-who-decapitated-baby-is-doctor-to-the-stars/
In Chennai, India though