DR Vaishnavy Laxman made headlines after she was accused of causing a premature baby to be accidentally decapitated during child birth.

Let's take a closer look at the tragic case which was heard in front of a medical tribunal.

2 Dr Vaishnavy Laxman, 41, arriving for the tribunal Credit: Cavendish Press

Who is Dr Vaishnavy Laxman and what are the claims against her?

Dr Vaishnavy Laxman is a doctor who was suspended after accidentally "decapitating" a baby during a botched birth at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.

She was accused of ignoring advice to perform a Caesarean section, choosing instead to try and deliver the tot normally.

The doctor reportedly urged the patient to push as the obstretrician applied traction to the baby's legs, tearing its head from the torso.

The body was delivered with the detached head still in the woman's womb.

What happened to the baby and when did the accident occur?

On March 16, 2014, while Dr Laxman, 41, was working at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee with a team of other doctors.

The patient was told to have an emergency Caesarean section as the premature baby was in the breech position.

Dr Laxman reportedly tried to pull the baby out by his legs, leading to catastrophic injuries for the tot.

It is claimed the mother was not even in established labour at the time.

What did the tribunal decide?

On June 5, Dr Laxman was cleared to return to work with immediate effect.

The 43-year-old can continue to work on maternity despite the catastrophic error which came at the end of a gruelling 24 hour shift.

Despite the tragedy, the tribunal found that the error does not mean she is unfit to practice medicine.

The ruling comes despite the tot's mother angrily confronting the medic during the tribunal, telling her: "I don't forgive you".

But in a judgement, tribunal papers said it "did not find that Dr Vaishnavy Laxman's fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct."

It added: "The tribunal wished to record that nothing in this determination should distract from the fact that on March 16, 2014, Dr Vaishnavy Laxman made a significant error of judgement which had serious consequences and a profound impact upon patient A and for which Dr Vaishnavy Laxman bears a heavy responsibility."

Dr Laxman should have given the 30-year old patient an emergency Caesarean section as the premature infant was in a breech position, the tribunal heard.

But she instead attempted to carry out the delivery naturally before telling the patient to push while she applied traction to the baby's legs.

The manoeuvre caused the infant's legs, arms and torso to become detached leaving the head still in his mother's womb.

Two other doctors subsequently carried out a C-section on the woman to remove the infant's head.

It was ''re-attached'' to his body so his mother could hold him before she said goodbye.

It is believed the child was already dead before he was decapitated during the bungled 15 minute delivery.

2 Dr Laxman could be struck off the medical register Credit: Cavendish Press

What did patient tell the tribunal?

The woman giving birth, who has not been named, told the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester what happened to her during her ordeal.

"I had been for a scan the previous Friday and I was told my son was breech and the nurse told me if anything had happened to my son it was going to be a C-section.

"But when I was taken to the labour suite nobody told me what was happening.

"A lot of people were talking they kept saying the baby needed to come out but nobody looked at me in the eye and told me what was going to happen.

"There were two doctors between my legs, one on my right hand side holding my hand and there were other people there too. I was examined by a doctor but she didn't say anything to me.

"They were checking for the baby's heartbeat and it had plummeted and that's when I was told it was going to come out.

"I remember them saying I was 2-3cm dilated and I was told to push. Nobody said I was not having a c-section and doing something else instead. Whilst this was going on I was in pain.

"The only pain relief I was given was a spray on my tongue. I was told it was meant to loosen my cervix but I was not given gas and air - I was in pain.

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"I tried to get off the bed but they pulled me back three times and just said they had to get the baby out. They twice tried to cut my cervix and nobody told me they were going to do it. There was no anaesthetic.

"I said to them 'it doesn't feel right, stop it, what's going on, I don't want to do it' but nobody responded to me in any way.

"Afterwards I was in a cubicle with a curtain around me and the sister came over to me and told me my son had passed away. I didn't know the details but Dr Laxman came to see me and the baby's father was there.

"Dr Laxman sat on the side of my bed and she said how sorry she was for what happened but I didn't know the full extent of what happened at that point.

"I just said, 'It's alright, these things happen, I forgive you'. She went away but I started screaming when I found out the full extent - I was just crying. I was upset because of the severity of his injury.

"I would never use the word stillborn, he was not stillborn he was decapitated. I was pregnant, my first pregnancy I wasn't sure what was going on and I was told it was the safest place possible.

"Nobody explained the plan or risks associated. It was like disorganised chaos and I was scared."

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