Exclusive | Glamorous maternity start-up backed by Chelsea Clinton sued for negligence: Court docs

A multi-million dollar maternity start-up backed by Chelsea Clinton which promised to revolutionize the way women give birth, has been hit with a lawsuit — the second in as many years alleging medical malpractice, The Post has learned.Oula — which provides midwife care from four boutique clinics in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Norwalk, Conn.— is being sued by Vantisha Knowles for “negligently acting outside the applicable standard of care,” according to court papers filed in New York State Supreme Court in March.Knowles, 39, who is a realtor, said she went to Oula when having her second child, a daughter.She had been looking for a clinic that worked with midwives and “they were great for pre-natal” but when she went to give birth it turned into “a traumatic experience”.“They basically rushed me through labor and did a C-section,” she told The Post, adding the experience was so bad it has contributed to her decision not to have any more children.In her complaint is says Knowles “sustained grave and permanent injuries” during the C-section, without going into specifics.Speaking to The Post, Knowles says after getting home, after she called Oula to describe her injuries “they just told me to go to emergency.

They had not solutions for me.Why couldn’t I just go through them?”Knowles said she needed to be hospitalized and to have blood transfusions. “They just don’t care,” she claimed.Knowles’ suit also names Mount Sinai Hospital and Ila Dayananda, an obstetrician/gynecologist and former chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, who works for Oula.“The defendants, their agents, and/or employees failed to provide reasonable medical care and deviated from accepted medical practice in the care, treatment, evaluation, management, and services provided to the plaintiff,” her legal papers claim.The charges she levels at the clinic are negligently “failing to properly evaluate plaintiff to determine the necessi...