A shocking photograph, showing a woman delivering her baby on a hospital lawn has gone viral after it was revealed that the woman was turned away by hospital officials.
The woman, 29-year-old Irma Lopez, was pictured by a passerby after a nurse at the Rural Health Center of the village of San Felipe Jalapa de Diazturned her away saying that she was not yet due for delivery.
The couple, who are Mazatecs and do not speak Spanish, could not understand much of what the nurse was telling them beyond the word ‘no,’ so they went outside.
The nurses blamed the incident on the language barrier as Lopez and her husband were of the Mazatecs ethnicity and do not speak Spanish. They also claimed that they did not have enough staff on hand to treat the woman due to a partial work stoppage.
Lopez said: “I didn’t want to deliver like this. It was so ugly and with so much pain.”
She also said she delivered herself of the baby as her husband was busy trying to get the nurses to come to her aid.
The government of the southern state of Oaxaca announced that it has suspended the health center’s director, Dr. Adrian Cruz, as officials conduct state and federal investigations incident.
A pleased Lopez said: “I am naming him Salvador (Savior). He really saved himself.”
