Japanese hospital flushes dead baby down toilet

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It happened so quickly that the mother of the stillborn baby was not even given a chance to say goodbye to him. The management of the medical institution has already expressed its regret.

A hospital in the Japanese city of Saitama has apologized for the fact that a cleaner flushed a stillborn baby down the toilet. It is claimed that this happened by mistake. The baby's mother not only did not have time to say goodbye to him properly, but also heard all the characteristic sounds of her newly born little person being flushed down the drain. This happened at 14 weeks, the baby was dead at birth, but even in such sad circumstances, doctors usually give women the opportunity to say goodbye to their child if they so wish.

It is reported that the 36-year-old woman was hospitalized, and the next day she was already in the maternity ward when she asked to go to the toilet. It was while the woman was on the toilet that the birth took place. Journalists found out that the medical staff helped the stunned Japanese woman to move to another room, and then a member of the cleaning team simply pressed the toilet flush button. After that, the doctors heard the woman's frantic scream, and it is completely unclear why the doctors did not pull the child out of the toilet first.

The baby's heart stopped beating 4 days before this event, but his mother and father still planned to give the child a name and even take a farewell photo. According to the woman's husband, the hospital management sent a written apology to the family. The letter also states that this medical institution will try not to make such mistakes again. A rather important point also remains unclear in this story: who cut the umbilical cord after all, and how could such a mistake have been made after that?