


Through a translator, Mongar's daughter testified Tuesday about the labor-inducing drugs and painkillers her mother was given as she waited hours for Gosnell to arrive one night for the second-trimester procedure.


"My mom was sleeping. That's what I thought. I tried to wake her up and the lady said, 'Leave her alone,' Gurung told jurors Tuesday, speaking through a translator.


"They said, 'I'm sorry. The situation was bad when we got her,'" another relative, Damber Ghalley, testified.



"He said, 'The procedure was done. Your sister's heart stopped,'" said Ghalley, who had driven Mongar and her daughter to the clinic from their home in rural Virginia, five hours away.

Clinic employee Sherry West jumped in Ghalley's car to accompany the family to the hospital. She said everything would be fine, Gurung testified. But the next day, doctors told the family otherwise. Mongar had died.

Ghalley said he saw Gosnell outside the hospital picking up West.

"He said the same thing: The procedure was done. I didn't do anything wrong. I would be able to answer any person, anywhere," Ghalley recalled. "He did not express any sympathy."

On cross-examination, Gurung conceded that the staff had checked on her mother as they sat together in the clinic's waiting area, and had her blood pressure taken. Prosecutors have alleged during the monthlong trial that no one properly monitored patients at the clinic.


Mongar's family has a wrongful-death lawsuit pending against Gosnell.