Julio Rodriguez
11/24/2020 5:58 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/25/2020 12:22 PM
A 22-year-old woman, 40 weeks pregnant, lost her baby because the ambulance never arrived and had to go to two hospitals by motorcycle.
After more than 10 hours of waiting and an endless journey,
the baby was born dead in a hospital in Formosa.
The young woman was not given an explanation.
Romina Ojeda, is 22 years old and lives with her husband Silvio Paredes (30) in Villa Lucero (Formosa).
On Sunday, November 15, she began with severe abdominal pain and contractions.
Her husband called the Laguna Naineck hospital several times to
send the ambulance to Villa Lucero, a small town 15 kilometers away.
The wait became eternal.
The ambulance did not arrive and the Laguna Naineck hospital did not give explanations to the woman and her husband.
Desperate both, they decided to get on his motorcycle and travel the 15 kilometers of a dirt road, full of wells and almost impassable.
The Hospital de la Madre y el Niño, in the capital of Formosa.
"We arrived in Laguna Naineck to the hospital, which is actually a little room now, and we asked for the ambulance to take us to Laguna Blanca. It is another 17 kilometers of asphalt road, because there they could treat me," Romina Ojeda told
Clarín
.
"In the room in Naineck, a doctor checked me, took my blood pressure and told me that everything was fine," but that I should go to Laguna Blanca because there is a hospital there and
they were going to provide better care.
Again they asked, in vain, for the ambulance to arrive.
They got back on the motorcycle to travel the 17 kilometers to Laguna Blanca.
When they arrived, "an obstetrician attended me and took me for an ultrasound, but since I didn't understand, he called Dr. Fiore to do it. The doctor did the ultrasound,
he told me that he could not hear my heartbeat and that the baby he was already dead
.
"
"I was very surprised because I felt the baby kicking, pushing to get out. I asked them to do a cesarean section, because there are all the instruments to do it and they told me
that they were not going to take over,
" said the woman.
Desperation grew, Romina and Silvio insisted and begged that their child be born, but in Laguna Blanca they refused again and told them that they should transfer the woman to Formosa.
It was between 4 and 5 hours of an endless journey by ambulance.
"We arrived at the Hospital de la Madre y el Niño in Formosa, the doctors examined me and told me that I was already in labor," Romina said.
The woman had a cesarean section and the baby "was born dead. They only told me that he was dead, they didn't give me any further explanations," the woman says between tears.
"I asked to see him and he was not even purple to say that he had died 48 hours ago, as some said."
For his part, the director of the Laguna Naineck medical center, Gregorio Bertuol, denied that the baby had died due to medical negligence: “By no means is everything that is said true, the report has already shown that unfortunately that baby has already He was deceased in his mother's belly and not because he was not brought in or sought for him, he died, it
is a fallacy ”
.
In turn, the director of the La Madre y El Niño hospital, Víctor Fernández, stated that the baby "
had not had a heartbeat
inside the mother's belly
for more than 48 hours
."
Romina was admitted to the Formosa hospital for three days, left on November 18 and since then she has been reporting her case without getting someone to investigate why she was denied the ambulance and care at the Laguna Blanca hospital.