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Les bras m’en tombent… Et néanmoins, en même temps, cela m’étonne à peine !
Voyez plutôt l’article publié dans The Age ce matin :
Woman gives birth in hospital toilet
September 26, 2007 – 9:40AM
A Sydney man has told of his horror at finding his screaming wife in a hospital toilet clutching her newborn child, which later died.
The 35-year-old woman had complained of acute pain while waiting for medical help at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital.
Despite her complaints, Macquarie Radio reports that she was not seen by a doctor nor given painkillers.
The woman’s husband, identified as Mark, told Macquarie Radio his wife, Jana, had already had one miscarriage this year.
He said Jana went to the hospital about 6.30pm yesterday because she was experiencing similar symptoms to when she had the earlier miscarriage. Mark said that after Jana had been waiting more than an hour at the hospital, he was told by a triage nurse there was nothing they could do, and they should just wait in the queue.
“In the course of our waiting, she’s ended up on the floor in a squatting position … with her hands wrapped around her legs … directly in view of the administration section of the emergency ward,” he said. “She’s grimacing in pain and nothing’s being done.”
Jana then went to the toilet and stayed there for a while, he said. “Next minute, I just hear a scream and a smash, and I jumped up, and I raced into the toilet, and … I just couldn’t believe the scene in front of me,” he said. “It is my wife … sitting on the toilet, screaming … an image in my mind I’ll never be able to get out, the look on her face, screaming, tears, hysterical, pants around the ankles … holding a live, live mind you, live foetus in her hands … with blood everywhere.”
The hospital said this morning it would launch an investigation into the complaint.
AAP
More today : http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/partner-tells-of-miscarriage-horror/2007/09/26/1190486395069.html
Tiens, moi qui suis a Sydney, je n’ai pas arrete d’en entendre parler la semaine passee via les medias locaux, donc je decouvre la facon dont l’histoire a ete relatee cote Victoria.
Bon, c’etait une fausse couche…c’est pas un accouchement dans les toilettes non plus ! Ca reste bien triste, c’est sur, de ne pas etre accompagnee dans ce processus.