3 Female Doctors to Face Jail Terms after Wrongly Diagnosing a Woman with Autism-PHOTO

3 female doctors may face jail term if convict of a criminal case level against them. These women were accused of certifying a woman as autistic so she could die by euthanasia.

Autism Which is a complex neurobehavioral condition that includes impairments in social interaction and developmental language and communication skills combined with rigid, repetitive behaviors.

Tina Nys died after claiming to be autistic to two doctors and a psychiatrist. She was euthanised after telling officials her suffering was ‘unbearable and incurable’, however her sisters have said that her suffering was caused by a broken heart, not autism.

In the first such case since it was decriminalized in 2002, the officials face trial accused of failing to comply with the legal conditions for euthanasia. Ms Nys’s sisters have accused the doctors of making a rushed decision without treating her for autism.

The diagnosis had only been made two months before her death, according to the Belgian media. In Belgium, euthanasia has been allowed since 2002 for patients suffering from an incurable disease who have made their request ‘voluntarily, thoughtfully and repeatedly’. This right for adults was extended in 2014 to minors, within an equally strict legal framework. Lawyer Jacqueline Herremans said: ‘This is the first time that there has been a decision to refer such a case to a court of law.

‘There have already been legal cases involving doctors, but they have always resulted in dismissals before going to court.’