Britain: ‘Culture of denial’ sent dozens of newborn babies to their deaths

Dozens of newborns died because they did not receive adequate care, a “culture of denial” in maternity clinics and indifference to the concerns of new mothers: a new scandal, the second since the beginning of the year in England, reveals inadequacies in some maternity hospitals United Kingdom.

Seven months after the investigation into hospitals in the west of England was published, Dr Bill Kerkapp and other experts presented their findings for the cases of 202 persons – of mothers or babies born between 2009-2020 – at two large maternity hospitals in Kent, south-east England.

From the 65 infant deaths, 45 could have been avoided.

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Tracey Fletcher, the head of the hospital group targeted in the investigation, apologized, as did Health Secretary Caroline Johnson.

I will never be able to forgiveBex Walton, whose son Tommy died in 2020, told the BBC. “What they’re doing now is not enough because my son will never be with me again,” she said.

Source: News Beast

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