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Doc sued for brain-damaged girl
05/10/2006 13:45 - (SA)
Hong Kong - A doctor at Hong Kong's top private maternity hospital is being sued for $64m over the birth of a brain-damaged baby girl, say reports.
Joseph Depasquale, a doctor at the prestigious Matilda International Hospital, which specialised in expatriate births, was accused of medical negligence over the incident in 1998.
According to reports, the case brought against him by the girl's father, outlined at a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, was the largest of its kind brought in Hong Kong.
Raminder Singh claimed Depasquale, the doctor in charge of his daughter's delivery, gave instructions by phone to midwives at the Matilda at the time his wife was admitted.
Wednesday's hearing was told that Depasquale, who was working in another clinic at the time, told the midwives to administer medicine to "speed up the labour".
It was reported that after the medicine was administered, the baby's heartbeat kept declining and Singh claimed that his daughter had brain damage as a result of the treatment.
Singh, who first filed in 2003 and now lived in the UK, intended to call four British experts to testify at a full hearing due to take place in Hong Kong's High Court in April. His daughter Anjali was now eight years old.
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