Cree woman alleges shocking mistreatment amid premature baby’s death at an Edmonton hospital.
An Indigenous woman in Edmonton alleges that mistreatment, racism and neglect at a community hospital led to her baby dying alone after, the woman says, she was forced into labour with no assistance from doctors or nurses.
The statement of claim says she was told there was a bed waiting for her. When she arrived, it says, a staff member looked her up and down and said, “There’s nothing here for you.” The next day, a physician whose name is redacted in the statement of claim released to media, said she needed to perform the vaginal exam. Gambler resisted because she was told it was dangerous. She eventually “consented under duress,” the statement of claim says, and she experienced immense pain that she said she never experienced before .
Gambler said she eventually went into labour with the male nurse in the room. The lawsuit alleges the nurse “provided her no care and did not call any physician.”“He just stood there and he watched me,” Gambler said. “I kept on hitting the buzzer, I was screaming and screaming and asking God to help me. Help my baby. And he stood there and he just watched me.”
The lawsuit says her daughter was not provided with any medical care after she was born, nor was a doctor called to assess her or Gambler. She said she never received an explanation or cause of death; there is no record of the time of death, the statement of claim says. “Pearl was left to deliver her baby alone. Her child was left to die alone. And the hospitals still refuses to acknowledge Sakihitowin’s life,” Noskey said Thursday.
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