Pediatrician Dionisia Dimitropoulou, who was the first to react and performed CPR on Georgina, described to the joint jury the moments that followed the incident, as well as her reaction. Roulas Pispirigou.

The witness essentially compared the nurse’s reaction when she saw Georgina in the room and the mother’s, characteristically saying, “If you ask me, I expected the mother to come out screaming. Scream. Other parents do it for simpler things.” D. Dimitropoulou said that, unlike the mother, the nurse started shouting “run faster!”.

As the pediatrician testified, none of the results of the tests that preceded her could explain the break: “Usually, deterioration lasts for hours. The child had no symptoms. I never felt a mother suddenly calling me, and the child was in such a state of being dead! Never! Never!” said the doctor forcefully, who said she first saw the little patient on April 9, 2021, when the defendant reported coughing and vomiting.

“The specialist found a slight pallor of the skin, cough and abdominal pain. When I went, the symptoms subsided. After that, her condition was stable, but at 18:00, my mother told us that she had a cough and abdominal pain. During the examination, the symptoms subsided again. At 20:00, during the afternoon visit, the child was hemodynamically stable with no findings.”

Regarding the next day, Sunday, April 11, when Georgina was stopped, the witness said: “At 7 pm, while I was in the doctor’s office, Georgina’s mother knocked on the door and Ms. Croak opened it. He told us: “Come into the room, because the pulse oximeter is beeping.” Together with the trainee and Mrs. Croak, we entered the room. First with slow steps. But our nurse, Ms. Petsava, started yelling “run quickly.” And we ran. I saw a child in the middle of the bed without nasal oxygen. The oximeter did not respond. I asked the mother how the child had come to such a state. He told me that he stood up, let out a scream, rolled his eyes and twitched his limbs. She was pale, with mydriasis of the eyes, loss of urine, and no contractions. I put it in recovery mode. I checked my airways, started CPR, increased my oxygen supply, brought in an AMBU (resuscitation machine) and did non-stop chest compressions. I asked to inform the anesthesiologist. I performed CPR continuously until the anesthetist, Mr. Khasapopoulos, arrived. From time to time I injected adrenaline. As soon as the anesthesiologist came, he got down to business, and I followed his instructions.