Georgina’s clinical picture a few hours before suffering the attack that left her a quadriplegic was described, at the trial of Roula Pispirigou at the Mixed Jury Court, by pediatrician Lambrini Vitsa, who was working in Karamandanio in April 2021 when the child was admitted for hospitalization.

The witness examined the little girl twice and was present without participating in the doctors’ efforts to revive her after the standoff, which Pispirigou is charged with as her daughter’s attempted murder.

As the pediatrician testified, she saw Georgina one day after her admission and after the child vomited:

“The first contact was on April 9, 2021, I examined her at 12:30, at which time I was informed that she was vomiting and I recommended a serum. I also saw her on Sunday morning. It was preceded on Saturday night by an episode of hypoxia. I saw her lying down, she was watching a children’s program on her laptop. I examined her, I didn’t find anything, I didn’t hear anything,” said Ms. Vitsa about the condition of the child, who a few hours later suffered a seizure.

Ms Vitsa said she informed the father, who was in hospital before Georgina went into labor, that the child was stable. Also, he said he saw worried Manos Daskalakis who, when she told him that there was something worrying, had replied that “that’s how it is with us, there is never ‘something’ and everything is done”‘ and that she tried to reassure him, knowing that he had lost a child.

The next time she saw Georgina “the child was intubated,” as Ms. Vitsa said referring to the time after the arrest. In fact, he reported that he saw “cool the mother when the child came out on the stretcher after resuscitation”.

Responding to a question from Roulas Pispirigou’s lawyer, Alexis Kougia, the witness confirmed the communication, to which her colleagues from Karamandanio refer, with pediatric cardiologist Angeliki Karatza. This communication, according to the defense, is allegedly not confirmed by the pediatric cardiologist herself, who will be called to testify.

Ms. Vitsa testified that when Georgina was admitted, her pediatrician colleague contacted Ms. Karatza before the child suffered a seizure. According to Ms. Vitsa, the pediatric cardiologist told her colleague that she had seen the little girl 10 days before, that she had not found any problem, and that she suggested the placement of a Holter for the second year to record the heart rate.

Answering a question from the defense, the witness said that Georgina’s objection “shocked us” and that the incident was discussed in the doctors’ briefings without a medical consultation on this subject.