The Ministry of Health said it will open an internal inquiry to determine the circumstances of the case of a woman from a village of Falesti district, who said that she was left to give birth alone in a ward of the Balti maternity hospital. The medical team that examined the woman on the hospitalization day and that later stated the child’s death, including the obstetrician–gynecologist, anesthesiologist and midwife, were questioned, IPN reports, quoting the Ministry.

The gynecologist admitted that he didn’t manage to assist the extraction of the child owing to the swift delivery caused by medicines. The doctor said he monitored the pregnant woman nonstop and attended the umbilical cord cutting and placenta extraction. The Ministry will inform the investigation bodies if it is established that the medical team didn’t offer the necessary assistance to the woman during delivery.

The case caught the Ministry’s attention after the woman filed a complaint, saying that the local family doctor refused to have her blood pressure measured because she wasn’t registered with this even if she was eight months pregnant. In several days, she felt worse and was transported to the Falesti District hospital and then to the maternity hospital in Balti, where she was left to give birth alone in the reanimatology ward. The woman said she called the doctors during three hours, but no one came. The medical examination showed the baby died asphyxiated because the mother had hypertension.