Julio de Santos Morla, a judge in Santo Domingo province has imposed three months remand in jail for Francisco Zarzuela Novas a doctor accused of carrying out an abortion on a woman, who subsequently died due to a perforated uterus.
The woman Altagracia Johana Novas de Jesus died when she was about six months pregnant,
According to the court, the accused worked as a doctor in Almirante hospital, and a witness said that the abortion had been carried out in a house in the area of Almirante, where illegal abortions were carried out on other women.
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