In the second such case in a week, a video has surfaced on YouTube showing a woman in the Mexican state of Puebla giving birth on a hospital's waiting room floor. Published by two separate users, Moderador Tehuacán and José García, it shows a woman lying down on the floor of the hospital reception while an employee at the health clinic picks up the newborn baby off the floor, the umbilical cord still attached. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to watch the video.
In the background of the video, a man argues with a female employee of the clinic and asks for the names of the clinic's supervisors before nurses gather the woman off the floor and lift her onto a stretcher. One of the employees responds, "There's not a lot of personnel and a lot of people." Meanwhile, one of the women observing the scene says, "They don't pay attention to you, they act like they don't hear you." User Moderador Tehuacán places the scene at the town of San Lorenzo Teotipilco in the central Mexican state of Puebla.
The images of the case in Puebla comes to light less than week after two similar cases occurring in the southern state of Oaxaca sparked off a media firestorm. In one of them, an onlooker snapped a photo of a 28-year-old woman as she gave birth on the lawn of the Oaxaca hospital. Clinic staff said a linguistic barrier - the woman hails from a largely indigenous village and speaks little Spanish - was responsible for lack of attention in her case.
According to Animal Politico, José Hassan Chaliní, the director of the Women's Hospital of Tehuacán, where the birth occurred, has been dismissed by the Puebla Health Department director, Roberto Rivero Trewartha, at the behest of Puebla's governor. Chaliní was fired for "neglecting to report [the incident] in a timely fashion" - the birth occurred in the waiting room on September 7, although the video is just coming to light now. The State government said in a statement that it would carry out pertinent investigations into the incident to assign responsibility for it. Alberto Denicia, the clinic's service director, said that employees did not act in a negligent way, although he added that between 30 minutes to an hour transpired from the time of the pregnant woman's arrival to the point she went into labor.
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