gynaecologist in Venice has been ordered to pay child maintenance to a patient who had an unwanted pregnancy following the failure of a sterilisation operation.
Dr Ruggero Pasqualetto must pay a total of 105,000 euros, around £70,000, to his patient
He has been ordered to pay £8,000 in court costs, with the balance as compensation for psychological stress suffered and maintaining the child during his school years.
The patient
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The patient, identified only as Signora A.S., a housewife married to a builder, already had two children when she gave birth to a baby boy on New Year's Eve, 1996, despite having undergone an operation on her fallopian tubes to prevent further pregnancies.
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Pasqualetto had utilised a rare technique, injecting a kind of surgical "super-glue" under local anaesthetic, to close the fallopian tubes, a less invasive method than the traditional surgery.
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He claimed he explained to Signora A.S. that there was a 15 in a 1,000 chance that the procedure wouldn't work, but the patient denied this to the court.
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Dr Pasqualetto said: "It's quite a rare technique here (in Italy) but is routine in the USA."
2006-11-15
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