The Supreme Court upholds the parents of a child who suffered irreversible cerebral palsy due to a medical error after birth.
The Supreme Court has confirmed a conviction that obliges the Canary Health Service (SCS) to pay 1.2 million euros for an "incomprehensible medical negligence" that caused irreversible cerebral palsy to a child born in 2012 in Lanzarote in the hours following his birth.
In the judgment that has now been confirmed by the high court, it was considered proven that the "severe spastic tetraparesis" that the child has today, and which makes him dependent on aids for life, was due to the "incomprehensible negligence produced during the hours following his birth" by the medical professionals who attended the birth. In this respect, it was pointed out that "all the physical and neurological sequelae that the child has were due to the lack of adequate treatment of the jaundice that he presented from the moment of his birth".
"The yellowish colour of the child was visible at the time of birth, despite which the child was not examined by a paediatrician until the following day, and when he did so, he simply indicated that the newborn should be placed in the sun", continued the court, which indicated that "no tests were recommended to try to determine the cause of the jaundice, which prevented subsequent assessment of its evolution".Read more.
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