Wednesday, September 09, 2009

I hope this story is not true

The UK Health System - Baby boy denied medical care because born too early and mother had to watch him die in a hospital! - Because of their medical guidelines not to save a "21 weekers" I really hope this story is not true. My son was born at 28 weeks 5 days and two of my friends had babies at 24 weeks gestation and our kids are just fine. I cannot imagine...we treat dogs better.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They fall over themselves to give mothers a chance to abort their babies, but when one wants to save their child...Argh!!!

I don't understand what the harm would have been in giving her injections to stop the labor. For pete's sake, wasn't it worth a try??

I'm totally with you on this, Tonto!

Lone Ranger said...

It's true. If there's one thing a bureaucracy does well, it's enforcing rules and deadlines.