A doctor who examined Iryna Fedyshyn before her late-term pregnancy loss was dismissed in Lviv

A doctor who examined singer Iryna Fedyshyn at home the day before she lost her child in the late stages of pregnancy was dismissed in Lviv. The Lviv City Council reported this.

- An unscheduled inspection took place at St. Anne’s Hospital, where the medical care provided to Iryna Fedyshyn was evaluated. The hospital received remarks that it must address by 1 December. The doctor the singer had chosen for the birth, who examined her at home before hospitalization, no longer works at this hospital, the Lviv City Council website said.

The hospital said it added doctors to around-the-clock ultrasound duty. Work is also underway on other organizational measures.

- Providing medical care outside the facility on the doctor’s own initiative is a gross violation of the hospital’s operating rules. After management became aware of this violation, the employment relationship with the doctor was terminated, St. Anne’s Hospital said.

Earlier, Iryna Fedyshyn said that she not only lost her daughter in the late stage of pregnancy, but also will no longer be able to have children, because her uterus was removed.

The singer said she experienced placental abruption, but the doctor, after examining her at home, thought that the increasing pain was premature labor.

When the pain intensified, the singer went to St. Anne’s Hospital at night, where she had planned to give birth. The hospital did not have an on-duty ultrasound doctor, which, the singer said, cost them precious time. Despite her poor condition, she had to go to the ultrasound on her own using the stairs.

The hospital said that an unscheduled inspection by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine took place there on 29–30 October.