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Doctors did not check Diana for pregnancy

The doctor, who led the attempts to save Diana in a French hospital has dismissed suggestions that his team should have carried out a pregnancy test on her.

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LONDON: The doctor, who led the attempts to save Diana in a French hospital where the Princess of Wales was rushed to after her car crashed in a Paris underpass ten years back, has dismissed suggestions that his team should have carried out a pregnancy test on her.

Prof Bruno Riou told the jury at the Diana inquest via videolink from the French capital that taking time to perform an ultrasound scan on the Princess would have been disastrous "as her chances of survival when she's brought to the hospital were almost nil", the media reported here today.

"For any patient suffering from multiple trauma, the issue of pregnancy isn't one we consider. And for a patient like her, bleeding massively and having been subject to cardiac arrest, I would have considered the fact of proceeding to an ultrasound scan as a disastrous loss of time," he said.

Prof Riou's testimony came a day after the ambulance driver, who rushed Diana to the Piti-Salptrire Hospital, had refuted claims that he drove deliberately slowly as part of a conspiracy to kill the Princess. "I drove smoothly at between 25 and 31 miles per hour, under doctor's orders."

Mohammed Al-Fayed, the father of Diana's boyfriend Dodi who was also killed in the accident on August 31, 2007, had alleged at the inquest that the couple were killed by the British secret service on the orders of Prince Philip to prevent them from getting married and having a baby.

The Harrods boss had claimed that Diana was pregnant at the time of her birth and the Royal Family was unwilling to accept an "Egyptian Muslim" as stepfather to the future king, Prince William, Diana and Prince Charles' elder son, and so the couple were assassinated.

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