The family of Vitória Chaves, a young man who underwent several heart transplants and was exhibited on the internet in early April this year by two medical students, asked the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJSP) that the authors of the video, the educational institution Inspirali and the Heart Institute (Incor), from the University of São Paulo (USP), pay compensation for moral damages equivalent to 200 minimum wages .
In addition to the value for moral damage, a payment for material damage is also required to cost the psychological treatment for at least six months in the total value of R $ 25 thousand . After the period, there is still the possibility of extending the aid if necessary. In all, the Indemnity reaches R $ 632 thousand .
Lawyer Eduardo Barbosa, a defense of Claudia Chaves, mother of Vitória, also asks Gabrielli Farias de Souza and Thaís Caldeiras Soares Foffano portray on social networks and sorry for the “mocking form” that narrated the young woman’s story.
In the injunction request, the defense states that students showed “a sadism incompatible with the nobility of the exercise of medicine.” The lawyer considers that the hospital was the “great potentiation of what happened not to hire professionals committed to their ethical duties”. The Inspirali College is mentioned in the request for being responsible for introducing students into the health unit as part of the learning program.
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Remember the case
Two medical students They published a video on Tiktok in which they mocked the 26 -year -old young victory Chaves da Silva, who went through Three heart and kidney transplants .
“You think there are 7 lives,” student mockery about transplanted young people
The post was made by Gabrielli Farias de Souza and Thaís Caldeiras Soares Foffano and excluded on Tuesday (8). The students were at the Clinical Hospital of the USP School of Medicine, where Vitória was hospitalized when they recorded the video. The young woman died on February 28.
Young man moved by medical students had rare disease in his heart
In the post, students mention that a patient had done three procedures to transplant the heart. They indicate that the need for several transplants would have been the young man’s own fault. According to them, the transplant had not followed the protocols of surgeries correctly. In a moment of the video, Thaís even say, “Is this girl thinking there are seven lives?”
The post went viral on social networks and, with the exhibition, the family of Vitória decided to denounce those responsible for the video.
In a statement, the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) reported that the Civil Police investigates the case as an injury through police inquiry initiated by the 14th Police District (Pinheiros).
MPSP said it received the complaint and the case was filed with the capital’s Human Rights Prosecutor on Tuesday (8).
FMUSP Positioning
The Clinical Hospital of the USP School of Medicine (FMUSP), where the young woman was hospitalized and where the students recorded the video, spoke upon the incident.
In a note sent to CNN FMUSP said Gabrielli Farias de Souza and Thaís Caldeiras Soares Foffano are part of other institutions and that they were in the hospital due to an extension course of about a month.
In addition, he clarified that they do not have any academic bond with the college or the incor. The universities of origin of the students were notified of the case.
“FMUSP vehemently repudiates any form of disrespect for patients and reaffirms non -negotiable commitment to ethics, human dignity and values that guide good medical practice. The institution also reinforces the mission of training professionals committed to excellence and human care, values that are non -negotiable in our institution,” the note added.
The college also announced that it takes additional measures to reinforce the guidelines on ethical conduct and responsible use of social networks, as well as the signing of a commitment term with the principles of respect for patients and the values governing the institution’s performance.
The Case of Victory
When he was born, Vitória Chaves da Silva was diagnosed with a serious congenital heart disease called Ebsstein anomaly, a rare disease that affects the heart valve.
The 26 -year -old has undergone four surgical transplant procedures, three heart and one in kidney. The first of these was in childhood in 2005. The second in 2016 and the third in 2024.
Vitória died due to septic shock and chronic renal failure in February. Death occurred a year after the third heart transplant and two years after a kidney transplant, which was compromised during the girl’s heart treatment.
This content was originally published in the mother of young transplanted exposed on the Internet asks $ 632,000 to the court on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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