The team in place on the day of the delivery, at the beginning of October, could not “identify the mother as carrying a type B streptococcus bacteria”for lack of information in his file, explains the hospital.
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The Mont-de-Marsan hospital center (Landes) has recognized a “dysfunction” internal after the death in early October of an infant a few days after birth, due to lack of care for an undetected infection in the future mother.
In a press release published Thursday, October 27, the management of the center specifies that the little girl was born “in difficult conditions” on October 6 at the Mother and Child center of the hospital and that she died four days later, despite being transferred to the Bordeaux University Hospital.
The team in place on the day of the delivery could not “identify the mother as carrying a type B streptococcus bacteria”for lack of information in his file, explains the hospital in an internal evaluation. “It would seem at first glance that there was no transfer of information between two files”that of the patient and that of the maternity ward, explains to AFP a source close to the file.
“As of now, corrective measures concerning traceability and the alert chain are already implemented in order to avoid any similar situation”specifies the hospital, whose maternity unit ensures more than 1,200 births each year. “All the Elements” were sent to the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Nouvelle-Aquitaine, continues the hospital center, which offered parents “a suitable accompaniment”.