Rights Commission Investigating Death of Pregnant Indigenous Woman at Guerrero Clinic The Associated Press
go to original April 17, 2014

A message aimed at pregnant women is written in the Mexican indigenous language Mixtec on a wall in Cochoapa El Grande, Mexico. (AP/Dario Lopez-Mills)

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's National Human Rights Commission said Wednesday it will investigate the latest apparent case of denial of medical care for poor women, after a pregnant Mixtec Indian woman died in a clinic along with the fetus.

The woman waited five hours for treatment at a government-run rural health clinic before dying of a heart attack and respiratory failure, the commission said in a statement.

It said she sought treatment at the minimally equipped rural clinic in the town of Copala in the southern state of Guerrero in late March. She was described as a 20-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant, but her name was not released.

The Guerrero state government had no immediate comment on the commission's statement.

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