A newborn who never held his mother. An 8-year-old boy who will never see his mom again. A family plunged into grief — demanding answers about the sudden death of their loved one at the Livadeia General Hospital in Boeotia. The tragedy struck just days after the birth of her second child.
The last 16 hours
The husband of the 35-year-old woman — a resident of Antikyra, Boeotia — broke his silence with an emotional, minute-by-minute account published today (29 June 2026) on newsit.gr. He described what unfolded at the Livadeia hospital during his wife Viosiana’s scheduled caesarean section — a procedure meant to bring new life, but instead marked the beginning of a nightmare.
“My wife had a planned C-section on Wednesday. Her pregnancy had been completely uncomplicated — no red flags, no concerns,” he said. “She’d been under the care of the same gynaecologist since early on, and had even undergone a dilation and curettage a year earlier. Everything looked perfectly normal. Our baby was born healthy — a boy. When he arrived, staff told me there had been some uterine contractions and minor bleeding, but assured me it was under control and nothing to worry about.”
At around 10 a.m., the baby was brought to him. The doctor said his wife would follow shortly, once she regained consciousness. But then the doctor left for another surgery — and didn’t return until 3 p.m. During those five hours, the husband says he saw neither his wife nor any medical staff who could explain what was happening.
“I kept asking the nurses why she hadn’t come down yet. All I got was, ‘The doctor will be here soon and explain everything.’ Meanwhile, without my knowledge, my wife had already been rushed back into surgery — and her uterus had been removed.”
A cascade of complications
The crisis deepened. Shortly before 3 p.m., the doctor informed him that his wife had developed a new internal haemorrhage, requiring emergency re-operation and hysterectomy. Though stabilised, she urgently needed platelet transfusions and intensive monitoring — services unavailable at the Livadeia hospital.
She was to be transferred to Thriasio General Hospital near Athens. Her husband learned of the transfer only about 30 minutes before departure — and was told he couldn’t accompany her in the ambulance. Instead, he was instructed to follow by car and wait for her at the elevator to say goodbye.
“That moment never came,” he said. “I waited — but she never appeared.”
In his grief, he made a solemn promise: to uncover exactly what went wrong — and to seek justice for his wife, the mother of their two children.