Giovanni Quintella Bezerra was filmed sexually abusing a patient undergoing a cesarean section
Cremerj (Regional Council of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro) approved, in a plenary meeting, on Tuesday, (12.Jul.2022), the provisional suspension of the anesthesiologist Giovanni Quintella Bezerra. The decision was made after the council had access to images of the rape of a patient who was undergoing a cesarean section at the Hospital da Mulher Heloneida Studart, in São João de Meriti, Baixada Fluminense, on Sunday (10.Jul).
Now, the anesthesiologist is barred from practicing medicine across the country. According to the council, the measure is a resource to protect the population and ensure good medical practice. In parallel, an ethical-professional process is being established at Cremerj. The maximum sanction is the definitive revocation of the registration.
“We signed a commitment with the society of celerity in what was possible and this provisional suspension is a response. The situation is appalling. In more than 40 years of profession, I have not seen anything like it. And our commitment does not end there. We have other steps ahead and we will also act as quickly as the case requires.”, said, in notethe president of Cremerj, Clóvis Munhoz.
The anesthesiologist was caught red-handed in the early hours of Monday (July 11). On Tuesday (July 12), in a custody hearing, Judge Rachel Assad denied the provisional release and converted the arrest in flagrante delicto into preventive.
The court informed that the process is proceeding in secrecy of Justice to preserve the identification of the victim. In the decision, the judge highlighted the seriousness of the act performed by the doctor.
“Such was the daring and intention of the custodian to satisfy the lasciviousness, who practiced the conduct inside the hospital, with the presence of the entire medical team, in the midst of a surgical procedure. Therefore, not even the presence of other professionals was able to remove the prisoner from the repugnant action, which counted on the victim’s absolute vulnerability, a condition over which the author kept under his exclusive control, since he administered sedatives in doses that ensured absolute inability to resist”, wrote the magistrate.
With information from Brazil Agency.
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