Moroccan Father’s Book Exposes Medical Errors in Daughter’s Tragic Birth and Death

After Sara’s death, her father, who was not a writer, took up writing. He wanted to share his daughter’s incredible story and work in his own way to end medical errors and even injustices. His daughter was born a victim in the delivery room of a cascade of errors that caused irreversible brain damage, reports La Dernière Heure. "In this book, everything is accurate, everything comes from the file," confides Boubaker. "If Sara could have been extracted at 3:34 pm instead of 4:20 pm, she would be 15 years old today and we would be talking about her teenage life." The man took care not to mention the hospital or the doctors involved. Avoidance of lawsuits is required.

Despite the experts’ conclusions, neither the hospital, nor the doctors, nor the midwife were prosecuted. Justice had pronounced a dismissal in April 2019. "Absence in the delivery room of a qualified and competent obstetrician. [...] The lack of supervision clearly delayed the decision to perform an emergency cesarean section. Performed on time, this would have changed the clinical condition and the future of the child. Having delayed the birth by more than half an hour exposed the fetus to severe hypoxia of long duration in direct connection with Sara’s neuronal necrosis lesions," the experts concluded.

To all this, they add: poor assessments in the management of a delivery announced as high-risk, poor organization of the obstetric team and lack of communication within the team, high-risk pregnancy inexplicably entrusted to a medical candidate with 8 months of training. "This delivery could not be delegated to an inexperienced junior," deplore the experts. "Faulty attitude of the delivering midwife to expel the child: the forceful application of her knee to the abdomen of the parturient was inappropriate and likely to have caused excessive hyperpressure, causing irreversible sequelae."

After her death, Sara was buried in Morocco where her parents go every year. "You are not forgotten, you never will be. Sara, you did not die for nothing if your death makes people talk about medical errors that we do not want to see. In your sunny cemetery, we come to talk to you, to give you news of your family and to pay tribute to a little angel of 8 years who brightened our life. We come to regain strength with you, Sara. (...) You will not be forgotten, Sara. I have done what is necessary for this, and I will continue until my last day," writes Boubaker.