Giovanni Quintella Bezerra, An anesthesiologist was arrested and wanted for rape in the early hours of Monday
According to investigators, Giovanni Quintella Bezerra abused a patient while she was taking medication and undergoing a cesarean section at the Vilar dos Teles Women’s Hospital in São João de Meriti, Baixada Fluminense
Giovanni Quintella Bezerra is being investigated for assault up to six pregnant women ( Source: Shstrendz )
Giovanni Quintella Bezerra, 32, was detained on July 10 on suspicion of assault on a pregnant lady who was barely aware after being drugged for a C-section.
After nurses in Rio de Janeiro became suspicious of Giovanni Quintella Bezerra’s actions after two C-sections that day and privately videotaped him during a third, where they reportedly caught him abusing the patient, they made an arrest.
Five further reported attacks at two different hospitals are currently being looked into by police. During the investigation, Bezerra has been detained indefinitely at a maximum-security facility.
As he arrived last night, inmates booed, slammed cell bars, and shouted profanities.
Who Is Brazilian Anesthesiologist Giovanni Quintella Bezerra?
The woman reportedly told her family that she believed she was having a hallucination when the attack took place.
Concerned about the quantity of anesthetic Bezerra was giving patients, his coworkers installed a covert camera to record him, according to the Daily Mail. Bezerra had just finished his training.
They watched the tape and saw the horrible attack that had happened as Bezerra’s coworkers were assisting the woman in giving birth behind a surgical drape.
They now worry that other ladies were attacked on the same day as they were. Although most C-sections do not completely sedate the patient, the woman Bezerra drugged claimed to be completely unconscious.
Doctor Giovanni Quintella Bezerra Arrested Over Assault
According to the police, who were already investigating whether the first two patients were attacked, at least six women have now come forward to accuse Giovanni Quintella of abusing them.
On Tuesday, he made his first appearance in court, where the judge ordered him to remain in solitary confinement during the investigation.
The doctor was detained at Bangu, the biggest prison complex in Brazil west of Rio, which is home to some of the country’s most aggressive and deadly criminals. Last night, when he arrived, inmates booed and banged on the cell bars.
The investigation into a medical malpractice claim has just begun. The other doctors participating, including Bezerra, have not raised any objections.
After completing the exam to become an anesthetist in April of this year, Bezerra gained that status. He is now being accused of utilizing his new position to carry out horrific crimes on a pregnant lady and possibly more.
Giovanni Quintella Bezerra Other Assault Cases
Separately, it was revealed that Giovanni Quintella Bezerra is a defendant in a medical malpractice lawsuit from 2018, when he was working at a different hospital and lacked an anesthesiologist license.
He and another doctor are held accountable for misdiagnosing a female patient’s case of swine flu as a urinary tract illness, putting her in a coma for 23 days.
After coming to the hospital with “delusions, chills, trouble breathing, coughing, shortness of breath, and dizziness,” according to the Globo newspaper, the patient was diagnosed with a UTI and was given medication.
Her initial physician apparently disregarded recommendations to check for more serious illnesses and released her, but she soon returned when her condition got worse.
She then came under the care of Bezerra, who confirmed the initial diagnosis and attributed her symptoms to “anxiety,” noting that she was “physically fine.”
The woman lost her big toe, suffered serious Achillies tendon damage, and experienced significant hair loss while in the coma. In order to cure the blood clots that had decreased the blood supply to her body, she had to be put into a coma for 23 days.
Her Achilles tendon deteriorated to the point where it needed to be replaced later, she lost her right big toe, suffered an injury to a nerve in her right knee, and all of these things happened while she was in the coma.
She also lost some of her former memories, lost most of her hair, and developed muscular dystrophy from being unable to walk about.
