Woman bleeds to death following abortion procedure

  ROME - Forces have been sent to Cardarelli Hospital in Naples, where a 20 year old woman has bled to death during an abortion. She suffered from haemorrhaging, according to the Director of the Hospital Franco Paradiso. The woman had received a blood transfusion, but went into hypovolemic shock, due to blood loss. 

  An internal investigation and autopsy had already been ordered by the Director, but the woman’s relatives have also decided to complain to the police. 

  This is the last in a long line of recent hospital inadequacies, as it has recently been revealed that three out of the four hospitals where four women died in childbirth in December had “critical” levels of organisation. Angela Nesta, 39, died of cardiac arrest at Sant’Anna Hospital in Turin shortly after her daughter Elisa was still-born on the night of Saturday December 26. Giovanna Lazzari, 30, and her eight-month foetus Camilla died at the maternity ward of Brescia's Spedali Civili hospital on December 31. According to initial reports she died of a haemorrhage after her placenta detached from her uterus. The other two fatalities were Marta Lazzarin and Anna Massignan, who died at facilities in the Veneto towns of Bassano del Grappa and Bonifacio.

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