The Yomiuri Shimbun
Sixteen hospitals rejected requests to admit a pregnant woman in her 30s from Chiba who was in immediate danger of having a miscarriage, it has been learned.
The diagnosis of the woman's condition was made at Chiba University Hospital in the city's Chuo Ward, the hospital she was finally admitted to about one hour after the first emergency call was made.
The Chiba Fire Department launched an investigation into the city's emergency care of pregnant women after it was revealed that a 38-year-old pregnant woman from Nara Prefecture suffered a miscarriage after being refused admission by one hospital after another.
The fire department said it did not know whether the woman eventually suffered a miscarriage after admission to the hospital and that it had no record of any reasons given by hospitals for their decisions to refuse admission.
(Sep. 8, 2007)
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