Hospital Director Fired After Woman Gives Birth on Waiting Room Floor in Tehuacan Agence France-Presse
go to original October 12, 2013

Earlier this month, the cover of La Razon de Mexico featured Irma López Aurelio on the cover, with her newborn and the umbilical cord still attached.

A Mexican hospital director was fired on Friday after a video of a woman giving birth on the waiting room floor was posted online.

The incident at the Women's Hospital in Tehuacan, in the state of Puebla, follows a wave of popular outrage unleashed when video of an indigenous woman gave birth alone on the lawn of a different hospital was posted online in early October.

The director of the government-run hospital in Tehuacan was fired "for failing to report in a timely fashion the incident, which occurred on September 7," the Puebla state government said in a statement.

Investigators opened the case when a video was posted on YouTube showing a pregnant woman having her baby in the hospital waiting room.

The recording shows that a nurse does not arrive to help until the final moments of delivery.

... A similar incident occurred on October 2 when Irma Lopez, a native woman in Oaxaca state, gave birth in the yard of a government hospital in the small town of San Felipe Jalapa de Diaz. Hospital personnel turned her away because the doctor on duty had not yet arrived to work.

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