The Indian gives birth to her son on the grass
The Indian
gives birth to her son on the grass
Her name is
Irma Lopez said that she couldn't get to the hospital
quickly but she was outside of the hospital and she had her baby and nobody
from the hospital helped her, so after few days she denounced the hospital in
San Felipe Jalapa.
She said that "I felt all that pain alone.
No one helped me. He fell just then. He hung his head a little and I crushed it.
I bent down and my baby was born. “The words are from Irma Lopez, the Mexican
Indian who had to birth outdoors, on the grass, after being denied care in a
hospital in Oaxaca.
The image of
the woman with her son on the grass , still attached by the umbilical cord ,
went around the world and sparked outrage of thousands of people .
The hospital
of San Felipe Jalapa, in the mountains north of Oaxaca , Mexico has few staff,
only 14 workers in two shifts , and the photo of Irma in social networks , lack
of attention has deeply outraged people .
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