A woman bleeding with a fetus in her bag was refused care at the Caldas da Rainha hospital on Monday morning, TVI reported. However, the administrator of the local health department of the West, part of the Caldas da Rainha hospital, Elsa Baiao, denied this information. morning PostThe user was denied assistance.
A 32-year-old pregnant woman who had suffered a miscarriage was given assistance half an hour later at the insistence of firefighters who did not allow her to be transferred to the Bissaia Barreto maternity ward in Coimbra.
The woman was advised to call 112 while she was outside the hospital, according to Caldas da Rainha fire chief Nelson Cruz, quoted by the television station.
Firefighters found the woman bleeding “profusely, like a fetus in a sac.”
“Luckily, our ambulance crew was aware of this and insisted. The hospital decided to allow them to make a uniform and admit the woman,” the commander added.