Sometimes we can hear news that leave us truly perplexed and show us how the lack of sensitivity nests in some Spanish hospitals. This is a very painful case that is lived as a true agony.
A woman who was six months pregnant lost her son and also had to wait up to 30 hours in the waiting rooms of two hospitals before being treated to remove her little dead from her belly.
The specialists justified the delay indicating that it was not a vital case, we would like this person to go through the bad drink of taking his dead son inside, to see if it was an emergency situation or not. The psychological damage that has been infringed on what was a future mother can be really severe. It all started when in a routine check-up the doctors did not find the pulse of the belly that indicated the state of the child, the specialists referred the future mother to the emergency center in case there was any possibility of saving the child's life. The only solution was to expel him, the baby had died and nothing could be done for him.
The specialists raised the use of an experimental drug that would allow expulsion without the need for a cesarean section, logically it was rejected, in fact it is not a usual channel and the process was not properly informed, so the couple decided to go to another hospital . This is a very logical decision, since in certain cases it is convenient to have another opinion.
With great astonishment, the couple had to wait for hours without anyone attending, despite repeated requests for attention, they were ignored. To add greater moral gravity to the situation, the Hospital de La Paz in Madrid indicates that they cannot attend them and refer them again to the hospital of origin, the Prince of Asturias Hospital.
A total of 30 hours and yet, hospital officials indicate that the treatment was correct, remember now the phrase of the principle and that according to the couple, said the medical director of the Hospital of La Paz, "it is not a matter so vital to carry a dead baby inside without knowing if this could affect the mother. ”
Fortunately, there are not many cases of this kind, but not one should occur. Attention to future mothers should be the main task, take care of their physical and mental state and above all provide a humane treatment, not as in this case, so, so dehumanized and lacking in feelings.
