As a mother “cool to cold” and “quite detached”, the pediatrician-intensivist at the University Hospital of Patras, Alexia Papatheodoropoulou, described Roula Pispirigou, who took care of Georgina, after she was released from the ICU of Rio, where she was admitted after she objected. suffered in Karamandanio.

The doctor who attended the child while she was hospitalized at the Pediatric Clinic in Rio, after leaving the ICU, referred in her testimony to the whole picture of Georgina and pointed out that the little patient was showing “episodes that could not be scientifically explained” which they had troubled and occupied especially, in order to find their cause.

Class Support Advocate: Did you discuss in the hospital whether some external factor could have contributed to the episodes that you could not explain?

Witness: In the context of the different diagnosis, yes, there was the paradox, we could not explain these episodes. And we discussed whether some external factor had an effect.

Called both by the president and by advocates in support of the Class to describe how she perceived the reactions of Georgina’s parents and – especially the mother who was constantly in the Hospital – Mrs. Papatheodoropoulou referred to a “quite detached” mother who “had difficulty express her feelings”.

Chairman: The parents asked “why doctor are you doing this to the child?”. Did they ask you questions about the exams, his condition, etc.? Remember;

Witness: We talked with the parents every day

Chairman: Did they have questions about the process? Something that was troubling them? And after extubation?

Witness: Regarding the development of the child’s health and his rehabilitation, there were constant discussions. They were told it could take months.

Category Support: Do you remember any of the mother’s reactions?

Witness: She was quite cool to cold, she was quite aloof and taciturn. She had a hard time expressing her feelings for sure, she didn’t express her questions.

The witness also testified – in response to the president’s questions – that ketamine “is a drug that we use to suppress children in actions that have a short duration. It restrains the reflexes, so that you can perform an action with a short duration. It is also administered to intubated children.”

He also said that it is usually given with another drug as “we do a combination of drugs essentially to ensure lower doses”.

Chairman: What are the side effects?

Witness: Salivation, mydriasis, bradycardia, hypotension and hypertension in some cases.

The process is expected to continue with the questions that the doctor will be asked to answer in the defense of the accused.