Her nucleic acid test result just expired 4 hours,yet lost baby

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The tragedy happened on the evening of January 1 when the woman suffered abdominal pains and failed to contact the local emergency hotline to get an ambulance. 

The city of 13 million has been in lockdown since December 23, last year under the latest COVID-19 flareup which has recorded 1,793 confirmed local cases as of Tuesday since December 9, 2021. 

Eventually, the woman was sent to Xi'an Gaoxin Hospital after contacting the police. However, when she was rushed for medical treatment at around 8 pm, the hospital refused to accept and treat her since her nucleic acid test results had expired over four hours, according to a post on Weibo made by a relative of the woman. 

The unfortunate expecting mother was kept waiting outside the hospital until 10 pm before she was finally admitted by the hospital while she suffered massive bleeding during the long wait. 

A video circulating online shows the woman sitting on a portable plastic stool and a pool of blood under her. 

However, due to the delayed treatment, the expectant mother, who was excited to see her baby in one month, eventually had a miscarriage. 

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Many netizens expressed regret over the woman's situation and called for improved hospital services during the citywide shutdown. 

The Xi'an health commission will require the hospital to communicate with the patient and deal with post-operative rehabilitation, and compensation in a proper manner. The commission also instructed the hospital to apologize publicly and fix all loopholes to strengthen hospital management and optimize treatment process.

The local authorities stressed on Wednesday that hospitals must not use the excuse of virus prevention and control to refuse treating certain patients. Green passages should also be set up for critical and severe patients including pregnant women.

On Wednesday, some communities in Xi'an started to count the number of pregnant women, according to media reports. A community sent out a notice to register the basic information of pregnant woman including their names, ages and phone numbers, a move welcomed by local residents.

Source:globaltimes

Editor: Crystal H

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