Another 112 babies die in 3 month span in one filthy Venezuelan hospital

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The silenced deaths of the Santa Ana Maternity
04/16/2018

Los Godoy Jeremiah grandparents met their grandson inside a coffin. He was stiff from spending a whole weekend in a refrigerator in the Santa Ana Maternity morgue in Caracas, because there was not a pathologist that weekend to deliver the body. His grandparents and mother decided to bury him without watching him. They also did not dare to dress it to avoid dismembering it. They wrapped him in his new clothes and placed the unused toys around him inside the urn that was buried in the Southern General Cemetery.

During the 13 days that Jeremiah managed to live alone his mother, Geisy Godoy, 18 years old, managed to see him. He was born on January 22, 2018 with 8 months of gestation and on February 3 he was no longer breathing, he was purple. Jeremiah was born weighing 1.95 kilograms, when the normal weight of a newborn should be at least 2,750 grams, to reduce the risk of mortality.

After 10 days, the child presented an infection. "He started to stiffen. He could not move his neck. The nurses told me to massage her but I was stiff and crying every time I tried to move, it hurt. I never could load it. I do not live and less dead because they gave it to me in bad condition, it seemed that it was going to leave," says Godoy.

Since the beginning of the year, on average, two babies die every day at the Santa Ana Maternity Hospital. The health center serves 14,000 births a year, and between 200 and 300 a month. Last December, 42 children died, while between January and February the death toll rose to 70 newborns, including preterm infants and those who completed 9 months of gestation. The cause, which is only named between corridor whispers, would be the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae.

It is one of the so-called superbacteria, resistant to antibiotics. Contagious by hospital, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a common intestinal bacteria that spread to all regions of the world. The pathogen belongs to the family of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), organisms resistant to all antibiotics on the market, including the last line of defense, colistin. The WHO details that it can cause nosocomial infections, such as pneumonia, septicemia or infections of newborns and patients admitted to intensive care units. The determining factor for its cultivation are sanitary conditions and water quality.

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