[FROM THE ARCHIVES] Infant deaths, brain damage and a popular midwife
๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ญ๐ด ๐ข๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ.
๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ป ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ต๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ง๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ง๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ญ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ป'๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ.
She was a popular pick for expectant parents but, with a number of new-born babies dead and three others with cerebral palsy in just four years, allegations of negligence are mounting against a well-known midwife operating in Gauteng. But thereโs more to it: Furious parents claim their babies were injured after they were given potentially harmful drugs at her clinic to induce and speed up labour without their consent and some private gynaecologists have refused to work with her. Carte Blanche investigates what went wrong in these cases.