Georgina’s doctor’s testimony to investigator: Pispirigo change of attitude and Minhausen syndrome

For what took place in the 4 hospitals, in which the Georginaas well as the strange things she saw in her mother, Roula Pispirigoutestified the director of the Children’s ICU of Patras Hospital, Andreas Iliadis.

Besides, was the first person to ring the “bell” for the mother’s behavior after Georgina’s first opposition.

In his testimony to the 18th investigator on April 8 for four hours, he described what happened in 4 hospitals but mainly what he saw strangely in his mother. The newspaper “CountryReveals his testimony.

Georgina’s first introduction to Rio
On April 11, Mr. Iliadis receives a phone call from Karamandaneio about a little girl who has suffered a heart attack.

«Our anxiety in such cases is whether the patient suffers cerebral edema, which could even lead to death. So we froze little Georgina’s brain to protect her brain as much as she could. After we stabilized the patient I made the first briefing to the parents. I told them that the fight would be difficult and that there was chance until death occurs in such cases. My first contact with my parents was that the father was sad caused me something. I remember like my mother. The little girl seemed to be winning the battle day by day».

The change of mother
The doctor trying to save the little one learns about the deaths of the other two children. He contacts Malena’s oncologist who typically tells him that “and she considered Malena’s death sudden and strange and that liver failure in the child is not justified».

The doctor in the morning briefing with parents notices a change in the mother. «I felt from the mother that there was a difference in her feeling. As if watching what was happening to her daughter as a third person as a spectator. Even the nurses noticed this behavior of the mother and told me. I discussed this with her and she told me that she has already lost 2 children and that she knows that I would call her an “iceberg” and I tried to make her feel that she is not alone.».

Minhausen syndrome
The mother’s behavior leads Mr. Iliadis to think that there is a possibility that the mother has Minhausen syndrome.

«I visited 2 psychiatrists, the manager and the deputy, I sat with them for a long time in different sessions, I externalized my concerns to them and I wanted to know if there was this syndrome in this case so that we could help. The appointment was closed, but there was a difficulty on the part of the mother because she was waiting for her husband to go to the psychiatrist together. The parents challenged the whole process with the psychiatrist because of the questions the psychiatrist asked the mother and told me that they did not want to continue the visits to the psychiatrist. My father said ”my wife is not crazy” and the psychiatrist who examined her later told me that did not diagnose her with acute psychotic syndrome».

The “bell”
«I got a call on Child Smile. I made 2 calls to it. The 2nd phone call was clearer and I expressed my anxiety about the possible existence of the above syndrome and there they told me that the incident was beyond their competence and suggested that I contact the Prosecutor’s Office. After myself I went to the forensic service and I met Ms. Tsiola, with whom I have been working for many years and we have excellent relations. I reported the problem to her and realized that she knew the issue because she had done an autopsy-necropsy in Iris. I told her all about Georgina’s clinical history. So she came to our place herself, saw the little one and I expressed my concern about whether there is a connection between sudden deaths and something genetic. I asked her what to do and she told me that I owe as a doctor to start the genetic test that had never been done in Georgia “.

The genetic test started with the establishment of the ICU of Patras

The course of Georgina
The doctors fall on top of the child and want to save him and make him live. They put a defibrillator and on July 19, 2021 the child is discharged.

«In the discussions I had with the parents, regarding the development of the little one, what impressed me is that the father asked if something extra could be done for the little one, that is, an operation, while there was not the same interest from the mother. Usually the father was talking, while she was just listening and in fact in one of our meetings in my office, I was impressed that instead of the mother asking about her own child she was asking about the children I have in a photo behind my desk and they had similar problems. On 17-01-2022 after consultation with the mother the child came to the hospital in the ICU of Rio and was performed with mild intoxication (chloral from gastrostomy) MRI of the brain. From that day on, the mother reported that Georgina had episodes of vomiting and vomiting. convulsions lasting less than 2 minutes, which receded automatically. On 19-01-2022 he was admitted to the pediatric clinic of the Patras hospital to investigate these episodes. At the hospital of Patras, Georgina was hospitalized from 19-01-2022 until 26-01-2022, where she was taken to the Children’s Hospital “Aglaia Kyriakou”.

He goes on to emphasize that “So I told the parents that I do not see anything abnormal and the little one can go down to the pediatric clinic. At the pediatric clinic he again presented similar episodes. On 22-01-2022 he re-entered the Children’s ICU in Patras, because he did 2 episodes similar to the previous one. Then it was decided to re-monitor more complex for two 24 hours. Our neurologist suggested that the child have a 24-hour electroencephalogram. The parents accepted it. After this the child left the ICU but on 25-01-2022 recurred with episodes of reported convulsions and bradycardia. We again did all the tests as they had been done the previous 2 times in the ICU and the prices were found to be normal again and the child did not show any other spasms “.

What did Manos and Roula tell me?
«In April of the year 2021, in one of our meetings with Ms. Tsiola in the intensive care unit the mother happened to hear the conversation between us and specifically the concerns and suspicions I had. Then she came to my office with her husband and they told me that they do not want me to deal with something that had nothing to do with the medical part of the procedure and to stay strictly on the medical part and I agreed and apologized. While I thought the relationship between us, that is, doctor and parents, would be disrupted, the exact opposite happened. The mother showed great confidence in my face, she called me, asked me, explained her questions to me and in general the relationship between us developed smoothly. “Then I inwardly believed that the father would come and ask me if I was worried about anything, if I suspected anything, from the moment he saw moves from me regarding his child’s health, which he never did.”

The last day
«On 29-01-2022, at the time when the Ms. Pispirigou called me to stop my little one and she told me that Georgina was opposed and I felt like she was just giving me some information about her child. I was scared what I asked “what?” And I told her to hang up and let the doctors act. Then he called me again and told me that the child had ended up. I sympathized with her and since then there has been no further communication with her. In fact, my mother deleted me from social media such as Facebook, she never communicated, as well as my father, although there were positive impressions about our unit. Then I received a phone call from Ms. Tsiola and she told me that the parents were trying to transport the child for an autopsy from Athens to Patras. The actions of all of us doctors helped the child to stay in Patras for the necropsy-necropsy, so that the medical examiners could immediately get all the information they needed from the doctors of the “Aglaia Kyriakou” Children’s Hospital. I would like to point out that during her hospitalization in the unit, I asked her mother to videotape the episodes of Georgina. I did this because we as doctors had never seen any episodes, since only her mother was present in everything. So on the grounds that only she could make us aware of the episodes of her little one I asked her to videotape these episodes. Georgina’s mother did shoot three videos, but they show alternately when the little one and when the monitor is moving very fast. In this way it is not possible for the doctor to understand if it is a case of seizures because the camera does not focus on the patient for at least 2 minutes “.

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