She reinstated her defense Roulas Pispirigou her request for a psychiatric examination to prove that the accused before the MOD for the death of Jortina “is mentally healthy and to end Munchausen syndrome”.

After the testimony of doctors and nurses, who in previous meetings of the MOD stated that the mother’s behavior at the hospital in Rio “was not usual” and that they wanted to check “if something was wrong with Georgina’s mother”, the 34-year-old’s advocate , Alexis Kougias, returned his request for an expert opinion to his principal:

“We are of the opinion that the accused is mentally healthy. You have the possibility to appoint experts even today so that we end this syndrome. We want this rumor to end,” said the advocate.

In court today, the pediatrician Venetia Bellou, who worked at the Pediatric Clinic and nursed little Georgina during her stay in Rio in January 2022, a few days before the little girl expired in Aglaia Kyriakou, took the witness stand in court today. transferred for specialized examinations.

The witness testified that she was present on 22/01/2022 in one of the episodes the child was having and had contacted the ICU of the hospital. “Georgina had desaturation around 70 and a fast heart rate. By the time I intervened the child came back. The child was pale, he did not move his limbs. The episode was characterized by intense pallor. Then he had two episodes of vomiting,” noted Ms. Bellou.

As the pediatrician pointed out, after three days, on January 25, Georgina again had “a prolonged episode”, for which first a colleague was called and then she.

Prosecutor: Did the episodes have any sequence?

Witness: It didn’t have a specific pattern. No. Let’s say sometimes she made two small ones and stopped. On 25/01 she did a big one without having done small ones before.

Answering a question from the defense, the witness pointed out that “even today I don’t know what caused this big episode. We did not, in general, find out what causes the episodes. We concluded that he needs a neurological examination. Georgina left us undiagnosed.”

To another question from the defense, the witness answered that the child’s companion, without remembering whether it was the father or the mother, immediately informed about the episode of January 22 and that in less than a minute she entered the room to see what was happening with the child.

Al. Kugias: Doesn’t that show that he didn’t want to cause harm to the child?

Witness: I do not know.

Al. Kugias: What is she!

The witness testified that, as is often the case in chronic cases of hospitalization at the clinic, the mother gave the medicine to the child.

According to the witness, there was a cardiologist attending the clinic where Georgina was treated (he is expected to testify at the upcoming trial). In the defence, however, the doctor in question “did not set foot in your hospital. We are of the opinion that the child should have gone to a cardiology clinic. They never called a cardiologist and finally he stopped.”