04 November 2021

Death of a pregnant woman as a result of a septic shock

On 22 September 2021, a 30-year-old woman who was 22 weeks pregnant died at the County Hospital in Pszczyna. On admission, absence of amniotic fluid was diagnosed and an earlier diagnosis of congenital malformations of the foetus was confirmed. During hospitalisation, the foetus died. After less than 24 hours in hospital, the patient also died due to septic shock.
The circumstances of the pregnant woman's death are being investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Katowice. Attorney Jolanta Budzowska is representing the family of the deceased woman.

The case has been in the center of media’a attention both in Poland and abroad due to its twofold component: one is the matter of a medical error, the second is the question of whether the doctors’ actions were influenced by tighter restrictions of Polish abortion law, introduced in 2020 by the judgement of the Constitutional Tribunal.

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