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Le texte repris ci-dessous est une traduction en anglais d’un site portugais :

http://gazetaonline.globo.com/noticias/minutoaminuto/local/local_materia.php?cd_matia=238652&cd_site=843

Titre : Transfusion sanguine se terminant par l’agression d’un docteur.
Date : 15/11/2006
Lieu : Brésil

Transfusion of blood ends in aggression to doctor 
15/11/2006 09:18:30

Newspaper A Gazeta 


What is worth more before an impasse in the a patient's treatment: the will of the family or the doctor's decision? The polemic was taken to the last consequences, yesterday in a hospital of Cariacica, and the case went stop in to police. 

Manager Elza Amâncio Viana, 30 years, she gave entrance in the Hospital Saint John Baptist, in Cariacica, with beginning of spontaneous abortion. The husband, Gilson, accompanied the wife and he/she asked to the doctors that she didn't receive transfusion of blood, because both belonged to the congregation Jehovah's Witnesses and they didn't admit the medical procedure. 

However, gynecologist P.C.V. - that asked for not having the disclosed name - it was work in the hospital and he decided to accomplish the transfusion to guarantee the patient's life. The husband of Elza, inconformado, broke into the pre-childbirth room, where she was assisted, and he attacked P.

Gilson justifies the attitude saying that lost the head when he saw the woman receiving blood, even after having informed the hospital about its decision. 

" My wife was pregnant of 12 days, but nor she knew. She had an abortion beginning, I took it in two hospitals before arriving to the Hospital Saint John Baptist. If they didn't have structure for another procedure, they should have informed me, because I would take it for another hospital ", he said. 

On the other hand, the doctor guarantees that that era the only alternative in the moment. According to him, the patient's life was in risk and there