Hospital guarantees that it followed the protocol. A Guinean woman, 38 weeks pregnant, took an hour and 20 minutes to get to the hospital. Baby was born and has a “very guarded” prognosis.
The Amadora-Sintra Local Health Unit opened an internal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death, this Friday, of a pregnant woman who was in the hospital on Wednesday for a consultation, in which hypertension was detected, the institution announced.
After reporting the death of the pregnant woman, ULS Amadora-Sintra reported, in a statement, that the 38 weeks pregnanta 36-year-old native of Guinea-Bissau, was admitted to the emergency department at around 1:50 am this Friday, transported by an INEM team, in a situation of cardiorespiratory arrest.
Between the call to INEM and arrival at the hospital, one hour and 20 minutesaccording to CNN.
“After entering the service, an immediate emergency cesarean sectionwith the baby born at 01:56, and is currently under medical supervision, with a very guarded prognosis”, informed the ULS.
“Asymptomatic”, two days before
The statement states that the pregnant went to the hospital on Wednesday “asymptomatic” for a routine consultation at the Amadora-Sintra hospital, during which she was identified as having mild hypertension.
The ULS states that, in accordance with the clinical protocol, the user was referred internally to the Obstetrics Emergency, where, after carrying out several complementary diagnostic tests, She was discharged with indication for hospitalization at 39 weeks of gestation.
What could have happened
“A lot of things could have gone wrong, including the basic diagnosis”, says Expresso journalist Vera Lúcia Arreigoso at SIC Notícias, who adds that “there is no record of the support this woman received in her country of origin“. In Portugal there are also no records of whether or not there was “very close monitoring in primary care”.
However, the immigrant had access, in Portugal, to at least two end-of-term consultations. “What was supposed to be done was done, screening and complementary exams. The means of diagnosis did not give any type of indication for hospitalization or for a situation that required another type of care, according to the team.”
However, “it is highly plausible” that the diagnosis did not identify another health issue. But for the journalist, in this case, “there is no obvious failure of the SNS”.
According to the institution, “an internal investigation was opened to investigate all the circumstances associated with what happened”. The Amadora/Sintra Local Health Unit “deeply regrets” the death of the user and sent its condolences to the family.
