“The child was apneic in bed and the mother just came and told us that the oximeter was not working,” specialist pediatrician Aglaia Karkania told the Joint Jury of how Roula Pispirigou alerted doctors when the child , on Sunday April 11, 2021, suffered a seizure inside the Karamandane Hospital of Patras.

The doctor, who participated in the dramatic resuscitation of Georgina, said that she did not expect this reaction from the mother: “She just came and told us that the oximeter is not working. Usually, when your child doesn’t respond, you hug him, shout. I didn’t expect this reaction.”

The witness, a few twenty-four hours before the opposition, had accompanied Georgina to the “Agios Andreas” hospital in Patras to undergo a magnetic brain scan, where nothing worrisome appeared.

“On Sunday afternoon, mom came, knocked on our door at the doctors’ office. I opened it for her. I saw her say “something’s wrong with the oximeter, it’s not showing anything”, something like that. I started to go and Mrs. Dimitropoulou also came. At 2 to 3 meters we saw the nurse outside the room shouting “come quickly, the child is not responding”. We ran into the room. The child was unresponsive to any stimuli, he was pulseless in the middle of the bed.

We immediately started resuscitation. It was very stressful for us too. I remember Mrs. Dimitropoulou asking mother how we got to this point. We administered adrenaline, did chest compressions and Ambu (infusions). Mrs. Stogiannidou called the anesthesiologist. After a difficult and traumatic effort we succeeded and the child lived. She was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit,” testified the witness about the medical event that left Georgina a quadriplegic and is now being charged as an attempted murder of the mother.

Chairman: You said you saw the child in the middle of the bed. How was;

Witness: He was on his back in the middle of the bed.

Chairman: Do you remember where the nasal oxygen was?

Witness: It was there but it wasn’t on the child’s nose.

President: Do you remember that well?

Witness: Yes, it was taken out, I think it was next to the child.

President: Do you remember what the child’s hands looked like?

Witness: No, I have the impression that it was on the side next to her torso.

President: Do you remember if he had roaches in his mouth?

Witness: No, I don’t remember.

Prosecutor: Who did the mother notify during all the days of hospitalization?

Witness: We learned from the nurses.

Prosecutor: Had he complained to you about the oximeter not working properly?

Witness: No.

Prosecutor: What time did you come to the doctors office on Sunday?

Witness: About 18:15, I can’t remember exactly.

Prosecutor: Did the mother realize that the child was apneic?

Witness: He did not give us that impression. Usually, when your child doesn’t respond, you hug him, shout. I did not expect this reaction. He just came and told us that the oximeter is not working.

And this witness testified that when the accused took Georgina to Karamandanio, on April 8, 2021, her tests were good and so it was decided to be discharged, which ultimately did not happen, as “the mother told us that the child did something like vomiting”, so it was decided to keep Georgina for hospitalization.

The process continues…