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VAYK HOSPITAL STAFF INJECT WOMAN IN LABOR WITH DRUGS AND SEND HER HOME
epress.am
08.31.2011 14:09
Three days ago, a youth civil initiative called "We won't be silent"
received a call from a resident of the town of Vayk in southern
Armenia regarding an incident in the town's maternity ward.
The incident described in the video allegedly took place days earlier
and involves a family from the village of Gndevaz in Vayots Dzor marz
(province), though reportedly this is not the only family that has
been affected. According to "We won't be silent" which prepared the
video below, on Aug. 11, a woman, in preparation of delivery, was
moved to the hospital in Vayk, where she was to wait for department
head Metaxya Hovhannisyan. Relatives of the woman in labor (who was
not named), Avetik Ikhpiaryan and Tsovinar Khachatryan, describe what
happened afterwards.
Khachatryan notes in the video that the patient was injected with
pethidine and sent home. "We know Dimedrol [in fact, most likely meant
Demerol or pethidine] is not allowed during birth," says Khachatryan
in the video, adding that they informed the nurse who simply told
them she is doing what she was told.
The family was then told by the head of the maternity ward Metaxya
Hovhannisyan to prolong the labor and that she would visit the family
at 10 pm that evening, says Ikhpiaryan in the video. Hovhannisyan
did indeed come, he continues; however, she delivered a stillborn.
The stillborn was sent to Yerevan and then to England for an
autopsy, say the relatives, who were told the cause of death was
brain hemorrhaging.
The family believes the child's death is due to the prescribed
pethidine in part and to negligence on the part of hospital staff,
and Metaxya Hovhannisyan in particular.
epress.am
08.31.2011 14:09
Three days ago, a youth civil initiative called "We won't be silent"
received a call from a resident of the town of Vayk in southern
Armenia regarding an incident in the town's maternity ward.
The incident described in the video allegedly took place days earlier
and involves a family from the village of Gndevaz in Vayots Dzor marz
(province), though reportedly this is not the only family that has
been affected. According to "We won't be silent" which prepared the
video below, on Aug. 11, a woman, in preparation of delivery, was
moved to the hospital in Vayk, where she was to wait for department
head Metaxya Hovhannisyan. Relatives of the woman in labor (who was
not named), Avetik Ikhpiaryan and Tsovinar Khachatryan, describe what
happened afterwards.
Khachatryan notes in the video that the patient was injected with
pethidine and sent home. "We know Dimedrol [in fact, most likely meant
Demerol or pethidine] is not allowed during birth," says Khachatryan
in the video, adding that they informed the nurse who simply told
them she is doing what she was told.
The family was then told by the head of the maternity ward Metaxya
Hovhannisyan to prolong the labor and that she would visit the family
at 10 pm that evening, says Ikhpiaryan in the video. Hovhannisyan
did indeed come, he continues; however, she delivered a stillborn.
The stillborn was sent to Yerevan and then to England for an
autopsy, say the relatives, who were told the cause of death was
brain hemorrhaging.
The family believes the child's death is due to the prescribed
pethidine in part and to negligence on the part of hospital staff,
and Metaxya Hovhannisyan in particular.