Monday, April 16, 2012

Argentina's Still Born Lives

Child-birth is hard enough without the medical community making critical mistakes. In Argentina Analia Bouter arrived at the Resistencia, Argentina hospital to deliver her baby girl, only to be told her daughter was still-born. The grieving mother begged to see her child but hospital officials barred her from seeing her baby and transfered the tiny body to the morgue.

After hours of begging, pleading, and demanding to see their baby the Bouters were finally admitted to the morgue nearly 12 hours later. To the Bouter's surprise the little girl had survived 12 hours in the refrigerated morgue box and was still alive.

This miracle underscores the dire need of efficient and highly trained medical personnel in Argentina. According to CBS News, Bouter grabbed her child and rushed to the ICU ward of the hospital. Bouter said, that "it was like carrying a bottle of ice."

The child has survived and a week later is doing well in the ICU ward of the hospital.

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