Hospital das Caldas da Rainha denies refusing to treat pregnant woman with bleeding and guarantees she was not aware of the bleeding

This was reported by the administrator of the local health department of the West, part of the Hospital das Caldas da Rainha, Elsa Bayão. morning Post that a pregnant woman with bleeding and a fetus in her sac, who claimed to have been refused care, was “rapidly admitted to the internal emergency department” this Monday, saying that refusal of care was not possible because “There is no refusal of admission, even if the services are not working.”

“The user arrived at the hospital at 7:30 a.m. During the external consultation, she was told that this was not the place to see her, so she could go to the emergency room. When she arrived at the emergency room, she found information that calling the Saude 24 or 112 hotline was not possible. In the meantime, the firefighters arrived and she was helped in the car. There was no connection with the hospital until 8:04 a.m., when INEM contacted a doctor. The patient was quickly hospitalized in the internal emergency room,” the hospital explained. CMElsa Bayan.

The administrator assured CM that “no one at the hospital had any information that the patient was bleeding.”