Dr Jay Matut is accused of killing a newborn after using a vacuum 15 times during delivery (Picture: ZocDoc)
A doctor is accused of killing an infant by using a vacuum 15 times during the delivery.
Danielle Mackenzie and Fabrice Diaz’s son, Alexander, died hours after his birth on February 17.
Mackenzie was dilated after pushing for an hour and 40 minutes, when Greenwich Hospital Dr Jay Matut ‘made the decision that he needed to expedite the delivery and recommended to the infant-plaintiff decedent’s mother that she undergo a vacuum-assisted delivery’, states a lawsuit filed on July 10.
Matut used the vacuum on the baby’s head a dozen times and the device popped off twice, according to the suit filed in Connecticut Superior Court in Bridgeport.
The baby’s mother, Danielle Mackenzie, claims the doctor ignored her request for a cesarean birth (Picture: LinkedIn/Danielle Mackenzie)
The mother said she was told to continuing pushing, but that the doctor about 36 minutes later used the vacuum three additional times, states the complaint obtained by Greenwich Time.
Ultimately, the infant was delivered via cutting an episiotomy.
The newborn appeared ‘limp’ and did not cry. He had swelling like a hemorrhage in between his scalp and skull and had a slow heart rate and poor skin tone.
He was put in an intensive care unit and then transported to Yale New Haven Hospital, where he died the next day of ‘hemorrhagic hypovolemic shock caused by a massive subgaleal hematoma’, states the suit.
The baby’s father, Fabrice Diaz, is also a complainant in the suit (Picture: Facebook/fabrice.diaz.7)
The parents claim that the doctor ‘inappropriately’ used the vacuum and ‘ignored the maternal request’ for a cesarean birth.
‘Matut acted with a reckless and conscious disregard for the safety of the infant in a situation where a high degree of danger was apparent,’ reads the complaint.
‘His care was willful, wanton and/or reckless, and represented an extreme departure from ordinary standards of care in the delivery of a baby where a vacuum assisted delivery has been utilized.’
The lawsuit seeks punitive damages, money and other relief the court ‘deems just and proper’.
A doctor at Greenwich Hospital is accused of killing baby as it was stuck in the womb by using a vacuum 15 times to suck it out (Picture: Google)
Matut earned his medical degree from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine and had been practicing for more than two decades.
A Greenwich Hospital spokesperson told the Daily Mail they are aware of the suit and ‘committed to providing the safest and highest quality of care possible’, and declined to comment on pending litigation.
‘We have offered our deepest condolences to the family,’ stated the spokesperson.
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