Beja: Mother loses baby and charges that there was medical negligence in hospital.
To 33 year old, was the fourth time that Susan was pregnant Master, but ended up losing the baby. The woman gave birth to a stillbirth, with the umbilical cord around the neck.
The situation in the past day 5 March, after laboring woman has passed several times by the Emergency Department of the Beja Hospital (SU-HB) and have been repeatedly sent home, due to "not be in active labor", He began by telling the Lidador News (LN).
Between the first Susana Master ambulance trip, resident in Vale de Vargo, Serpa county, the Health Center of this city, and then forwarding to the unit hospital Bejense, and labor spent nearly 2 weeks, without being detected any anomaly in pregnancy. One of the presences in the US-HB made a Cardiotografia (CTG), examination revealed no abnormality.
With new pain, a 3 March Susana Master returns to hospital, It follows another CTG and two hours later a new return to bed. "They gave me as a justification which was not admitted because there were no vacancies. With the pain I had and the two centimeters dilated, if I had stayed in hospital, childbirth could have been provoked and now had the baby in her lap ", says angry.
But on the afternoon of 5 March, with 39 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy, gives the fatal outcome. Returns to hospital, back to the new CTG, which are no longer detected the baby's heartbeat. "In the morning still I felt my boy. After the examination was taken to the delivery room, I asked what had happened and the answers were evasive ", accuses the mother, I learned later that gave birth to the dead baby, adding "had the cord around the neck", ends.
The fetus was taken from Beja Medico-Legal Office for the Hospital Egas Moniz, in Lisbon and was autopsied on Tuesday, funeral having been done yesterday (Wednesday) in the cemetery of Vale de Vargo.
"We do not have results of autopsy. We present a written complaint at the Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo (ULSBA) about the whole process that led to this sad outcome, but there is not yet any explanation ", Susana ended Mestre.
The administration of ULSBA confirmed the entry of complaint, but "because it is a delicate matter, through an internal investigation we will gather all the elements to give the family all clarifications ", remataram.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
