The touching picture of the faceless baby that his mother shared

A whole country has stopped before a photo. The hand of a baby holding the nested hands of his parents went to Portugal in a few seconds. It's about little Rodrigo, the baby who born without eyes, without nose and without part of the skull.

Marlene Simao, the baby's mother, shared the photo on her social networks after asking for justice. Did the birth of the baby reveal a scandal of medical negligence In Iberian country.

Parents live a drama that they never imagined. The obstetrician Artur Carvalho, who attended her throughout the pregnancy, always told them that her son was in the best conditions and did not detect the malformations in any of the three ultrasounds performed. He even fired a fourth in 5D according to which the woman would have become in another medical center.

On October 7, the story of what was to be a happy moment took a 180-degree turn: the baby came with serious malformations. The birth of the boy, who was in Setúbal, 50 kilometers south of Lisbon, was known just a few days ago and the tumult generated quickly crossed the border of the European country.

In the media, the scandal quickly escalated after it became known that the specialist assisting the couple was working in spite of four open disciplinary procedure.

Discouraged, the doctors of the private hospital where the birth took place left the little boy a few hours to live, but they also failed. The baby is kept alive and the mother does not take off even a second on her side. For now, according to the newspaper ABCThe clinical picture of Rodrigo is incomplete because, because of his condition, they can not deepen the analysis.

According to the Spanish newspaper, this Tuesday, the Medical Association of Portugal He meets to analyze the situation, although they said that for the moment they would not pronounce themselves.

For his part, the President of the Official College of Physicians, Miguel Guimaraes, requested that investigations be accelerated, before the social alarm This caused the case. "If the disciplinary council does not act, I can not do anything else," he said with frustration.