A person in Cambodia has filed a legal grievance towards a personal hospital in Kampong Speu province after a midwife eliminated a part of his spouse’s intestines whereas performing a process to take away her lifeless fetus, prompting a wider probe into unlawful abortions within the nation.
On Nov. 2, Chheang Srey Oun, a 22-year-old manufacturing facility employee, underwent an operation on the Doeum Angkorng Maternity Clinic to take away a five-month-old fetus that had died in her womb, leaving her decrease gut severely broken.
A preliminary investigation discovered that she had been operated on by a licensed midwife named Ung Thearin, who had by no means been skilled to carry out an abortion.
Chheang Srey Oun is now being monitored at Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh, the place she stays in important situation. Cambodia’s Ministry of Well being has briefly closed the Doeum Angkorng Maternity Clinic pending additional investigation.
Information of the case has obtained nationwide consideration after the girl used Fb to enchantment for assist, saying she is in want of pressing therapy.
Talking to RFA Khmer from Calmette Hospital on Thursday, Chheang Srey Oun’s husband Pheng Voeun confirmed {that a} legal grievance had been filed in his spouse’s case. He known as on the courts and related establishments to assist carry justice to his spouse.
He stated he has been receiving help from the Purple Cross to pay for his spouse’s therapy.
In a press release on Thursday, Well being Minister Mam Bun Heng stated that the Doeum Angkorng Maternity Clinic had acted recklessly for permitting an untrained midwife to carry out an abortion on Chheang Srey Oun.
The clinic should “face the implications” of its actions in response to the legislation, he stated, including that Ung Thearin’s license had been suspended for 2 years. The midwife has thus far did not cooperate with the investigation and is presently on the run from authorities.
He additionally ordered a probe of all personal clinics and different services, including that these discovered to carry out abortions illegally will likely be punished accordingly.
The President of the Cambodian Commerce Union Confederation, Rong Chhun, informed RFA that the Ministry of Well being must current a transparent rationalization for what occurred to Chheang Srey Oun as a result of it impacts the lives of all Cambodians.
“The midwife have to be held accountable for the price [of her treatment], in response to the legislation,” he stated.
In line with the most recent figures from the World Financial institution, Cambodia’s maternal mortality fee was 160 for each 100,000 stay births in 2017, a 4.76% decline from 2016. The mortality fee had declined for 3 consecutive years from 189 in 2014.
Translated by Samean Yun. Written in English by Joshua LIpes.