Posted on 10/13/2013 7:36:39 AM PDT by lowbridge
Mexico has been badly shaken by a photograph of a woman squatting on the grass and grimacing in pain as she gives birth to a child. It’s not that the photograph is so dreadful, although one feels for her pain and the absence of privacy and, therefore, dignity. What’s causing so much soul-searching in Mexico is the reason the woman ended up being photographed giving birth on a lawn.
Mexico, a country with socialized medicine (except for rich people, who have their own private healthcare market), has a troubling shortage of good maternity care. Additionally, Mexico’s indigenous people routinely face discrimination when they try to get access to government health services.
Irma Lopez, 29, went to a health clinic in Oaxaca, Mexico, because she was in labor. She didn’t even make it through the front door. Instead, a nurse told Lopez that she was only eight months pregnant, and therefore “not ready” to deliver. The nurse told Lopez to take a walk and come back the next day.
This advice was ironic, since Lopez and her husband had already walked an hour to the clinic from their one-bedroom hut in the mountains. While walking outside the clinic, though, Lopez’s water finally broke.
Lopez dropped to the lawn in front of the clinic and, clinging to the wall of a neighboring house, gave birth to a son. Lopez said the experience was terribly disturbing. She was entirely alone, because her husband was seeking help. “I didn’t want to deliver like this. It was so ugly and with so much pain.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mrconservative.com ...
Didn’t this use to be the norm?
I don’t understand the problem here. If you can’t afford a service, you don’t get the service.
Didn’t this use to be the norm?
I don’t understand the problem here. If you can’t afford a service, you don’t get the service.
Of course, when it happens in a place where everyone is supposed to get free health care, well, you have a problem...
Mexico, a country with socialized medicine (except for rich people, who have their own private healthcare market), has a troubling shortage of good maternity care. Additionally, Mexico’s indigenous people routinely face discrimination when they try to get access to government health services.
Didn’t any bleeding-heart Liberal explain to the mother the concept of “anchor baby”?
Natural birth.
The upside for the Mexican couple is that their kid won't have to deal with any super-bug staph problems and the sun was shining.
I was waiting on my guide in Mexico’s Baja. Across the street was a big, modern building with dozens of people waiting outside. When my guide showed I asked, “What are those people waiting for?” He said, “That’s the hospital. It’s got a waiting crowd like that 24/7. During the summer when it’s 120 degrees they send out gurneys every hour to collect the dead.” (But it’s all “free.”) He later showed me the free hospital for the elite. It was much nicer, bigger and no waiting crowd. But I saw evidence of their medical care which I’d place at around 1955 by US standards.
Does this mean that there are still some born in Mexico?
Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
Just so we know.
She gave birth in Mexico??? How the hell did that happen????
She gave birth in Mexico??? How the hell did that happen????
Good point and true. Indios are treated extremely bad in mexico. I recall as a kid shopping with my mom in Juarez (used to be a nice shopping area) and watching the cops chase off “squaws”. They werent allowed in those areas.
Many of the Indios do not speak Spanish in today’s mexico.
My family left northern mexico around 1900 and settled in NM...which was never part of mexico!
Walked an hour in flip-flops to give birth on a lawn. She deserves some sort of award.
They have Obamacare in Mexico?
Been there...
The gov't "shutdown" must have stopped the shuttle service to U.S. hospitals. How do republicans sleep at night? /obvious sarc
The rich, the politicians, and their staffs, right? This is the unavoidable future of socialized medicine.
HA! that was funny
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