A shocking photograph, showing a woman delivering her
baby on a hospital lawn has gone viral after it was
revealed that the woman was turned away by hospital
officials. The woman, 29-year-old Irma Lopez, was
pictured by a passerby after a nurse at the Rural Health
Center of the village of San Felipe Jalapa de Diazturned her
away saying that she was not yet due for delivery.
The couple, who are Mazatecs and do not speak Spanish,
could not understand much of what the nurse was telling
them beyond the word ‘no,’ so they went outside.
The nurses blamed the incident on the language barrier as
Lopez and her husband were of the Mazatecs ethnicity and
do not speak Spanish. They also claimed that they did not
have enough staff on hand to treat the woman due to a
partial work stoppage.
Lopez said: “I didn’t want to deliver like this. It was so
ugly and with so much pain.”
She also said she delivered herself of the baby as her
husband was busy trying to get the nurses to come to her
aid.
The government of the southern state of Oaxaca announced
that it has suspended the health center’s director, Dr.
Adrian Cruz, as officials conduct state and federal
investigations incident.
A pleased Lopez said: “I am naming him Salvador (Savior).
He really saved himself.”
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