These deaths recorded in a hospital in Shrewsbury, in the north-west of England, could have been avoided with adequate care and caesarean deliveries, report reveals.
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A scandal spanning two decades. The British government apologized on Wednesday (March 30) after a report emerged that the deaths of 200 babies in a hospital in north-west England could have been avoided with proper care and no stubbornness to avoid. caesareans.
“To all the families who have suffered seriously, I am sorry”, said the British Minister of Health, Sajid Javid. Commissioned in 2017, the report looked at 1,592 reported incidents at Shrewsbury Hospital, involving 1,486 families mostly between 2000 and 2019.
Nine mothers also lost their lives due to abuse while others were forced to give birth naturally when they should have been offered a Caesarean section.
The 250-page report notably notes cases of newborns with skull fractures, broken bones and brain problems after being deprived of oxygen at the time of birth. Shortcomings “significant or major” were also observed in a quarter of the 498 cases of stillborn babies studied. In 40% of cases, no internal hospital investigation was carried out.
According to the report, the maternity hospital was pushing for natural births to keep its cesarean section rate as low as possible, resorting to it only on too few occasions.
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