A Sicilian judge Monday
suspended three doctors from practicing for 10 months pending
the outcome of an investigation into alleged negligence leading
to the death of a newborn infant girl hours after they delivered
her at a Catania clinic, judicial officials said.
The three were identified as gynaecologists Maria Ausilia
Palermo and Antonio Di Pasquale and anaesthetist Giovanni
Alessandro Gibiino, who worked on the birth of little Niccole
and allegedly conspired to cover up their negligence in failing
to carry out a Caesarian birth on her mother because the Gibiino
clinic where they worked did not have the requisite equipment.
A judge ruled the three be suspended from practising
pending their trial for manslaughter because of a concrete risk
they might carry out similar crimes again.
Prosecutor Michelangelo Patané said investigators based the
charges on examination of falsified clinic records and telephone
taps of the doctors' conversations.
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