Turned away, Mexican women giving birth outside hospitals
Turned away, Mexican women giving birth outside hospitals
By Tim Johnson
McClatchy Foreign Staff
Published: Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 - 8:52 am
Last Modified: Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 - 9:03 am
HUAJUAPAN DE LEON, Mexico -- The pangs were quickening when Nancy Salazar Lopez arrived at a hospital in the remote city of Huajuapan de Leon in Oaxaca one recent Sunday. She felt her baby was coming.
But doctors did a cursory check and said she wasn’t ready. They asked her to return in a few hours. She did, again and again. They kept turning her away, the last time after her water had already broken and blood dribbled down her legs.
“They said there weren’t enough doctors,” said Salazar’s mother, Jesus Ofelia Lopez Cisneros, a 47-year-old ethnic Mazatec, one of 15 major indigenous groups that live in the southern Mexican state.
Her daughter gave birth that evening on the hospital’s concrete steps, unable to gain entry. As the birth took place, a crowd gathered. The father swaddled the newborn in a cloth. A physician emerged after more than five minutes.
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