A woman regarding to give birth arrived with her husband at the Pope Francisco hospital in the city of Salta and did not receive medical assistance to give birth, for which she had to do it alone on the street, following “hospital employees” told the man that “they had no staff” and that he should take her to another care center.
According to the complaint made by the baby’s father and images that went viral, the employees did not want to call an ambulance either and from SAME they told him that he should go to the Maternal and Child Hospital, in the north of the city, so when trying to board a remís, the woman had her daughter on the street.
After learning regarding the case, the Salta government began an investigation and instituted an administrative summary. The health minister Federico Mangione assured that “a thorough investigation will be carried out” and that “the thread will not be cut for the finest, it will go to the bone so that this does not happen once more.”
Sergio, the baby’s father, assured in the last few hours that The newborn “had a broken clavicle when hitting the asphalt.” He also detailed: “Yesterday around 9:30 p.m. my wife felt a lot of pain in her belly. She asked me to take her to the hospital. And we moved to the Pope Francis Hospital, which is the one that was closest to us”.
“I leave her at the entrance, I park the motorcycle and when I go to look for her I see that she is leaving the hospital and she tells me that they told her that there was no staff and that they might not attend to her,” the man continued in dialogue with the channel. A24according to what was published by the agency telam.
But, she “might not bear the pain to go to another hospital,” Sergio said.
The woman had to give birth in the street, as recorded by the videos of the people who were waiting in the guardwho provided assistance. “My wife gave birth while standing. People ran out when they saw the baby on the floor and then a nurse came out”, assured the man.
Hours following what happened, Minister Mangione stressed that “the mother is stable and the baby had a clavicle fracture and a head injury but is recovering well.” He further indicated that the woman “required help and she did not provide it. The hospital is without a gynecologist or obstetrician because it was prepared to work with the Covidbut all doctors are trained to attend a birth ”.
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