Claim: Dominican hospital under scrutiny after 14 newborns die.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

Retrieved passages:
title: Abortion in the Dominican Republic
text: and introduced by President Leonel Fernández as Proposal 21. The Dominican Gynecology and Obstetrics Society warned that the number of maternal deaths will increase considerably, because pregnancies can not be interrupted. The society’s president, Aldrian Almonte, said the current figure of 160 deaths for each 100,000 live births per year will increase, because doctors would be reluctant to proceed from fear of being charged in cases where they must decide on the interruption of a pregnancy to preserve the mother’s life. Dr. Altamonte asked, “I would like of the honorable legislators to tell me what are we going to do

title: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
text: from the superbug. In 2006 an outbreak of a community-acquired infection Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus on the neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital, resulted in five babies carrying the organism and possibly contributing to the death of one baby. The hospital was placed on black alert in November 2007 when it ran out of beds for a time. Ambulances were forced to queue outside the building while non-urgent patients were discharged to free up beds and a major incident emergency plan implemented. In March 2011 several wards in the hospital were closed as a result of an outbreak of the

title: Furness General Hospital scandal
text: 2010, having destroyed evidence to the contrary. The independently issued Morecambe Bay Investigation Report was published in 2015, stating a 'lethal mix' of 'serious and shocking' failings had led to the deaths of eleven babies and one mother. The report recommended a national review of maternity care and thorough investigations of staff members involved by the General Medical Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council. Numerous investigations have discovered serious failings, corruption and cover-ups on every level; investigations continue and no individual has been held accountable for the deaths at FGH. The criminal investigation into the scandal was concluded in April

title: Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
text: Human Research Protection Office provides for the regulatory and compliance oversight of all research conducted at Dignity. The hospital in late 2009 had as a patient a mother of four who was 11 weeks pregnant and suffering from a severe case of pulmonary hypertension. Doctors estimated that her chance of dying if she continued the pregnancy was "close to 100 percent". An ethics board approved an abortion to save the life of the mother, even though the hospital was Catholic and within the Diocese of Phoenix. A religious sister, Sister Margaret Mary McBride, who was a vice president at the

title: Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital
text: of Health. The hospital is considered as a "baby factory" and ground zero of the Philippines’ overpopulation crisis. The reputation of the hospital as a baby factory is well justified as no other hospital in the country has a higher birth rate. The maternity ward at the Hospital continues to overflow with hundreds of new mothers. Not enough beds for everyone, so four or five mothers share one bed. The hospital suffers from extreme heat during the summer. Fabella caters to the greater Manila area, and even at the height of storms and typhoons, some women would brave the floods

title: Hospital General de la Plaza de la Salud
text: medical advances. • CENTOX, the first Poison control center in the Dominican Republic. • Followed the successful pregnancy, delivery and birth of the first sextuplets in the Dominican Republic with only 26 and a half weeks of gestation. The children are now 4 years of age and healthy (2009). •Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) as a national reference of care. •Pacemaker Clinic •Hemodialysis Unit • Center for Integrated medicine •Thorax Pain Unit • Organ and tissue transplantation program., which has a Transplant Counsel and an Organ Captivity Coordination Unit. The program achieved the first kidney transplant from a deceased donor

title: Baba Raghav Das Medical College
text: against them, and to get promotions. Other medical practitioners have blamed the hospital's negligence as a major factor behind the high number of child deaths. Over these years, several politicians visited the hospital after each incident of mass child deaths. They made promises to upgrade the hospital facilities, but no such upgrades were done. In 2017, 175 children died of encephalitis (out of a total 1,256 deaths at the hospital). The deaths attracted media attention and generated political controversy in August 2017, when 296 children died (including 77 of encephalitis). However, the total number of child deaths (including encephalitis-related child

title: Lucia de Berk
text: the case was reopened by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, as new facts had been uncovered that undermined the previous verdicts. De Berk was freed, and her case was re-tried; she was exonerated in April 2010. As a result of an unexpected death of a baby (Amber) in the Juliana Kinderziekenhuis (JKZ, Juliana Children's Hospital) in The Hague on 4 September 2001, earlier deaths and cardiopulmonary resuscitations were scrutinised. Between September 2000 and September 2001 there appeared to have been nine incidents, which earlier had all been thought unremarkable but now were considered medically suspicious. Lucia de Berk had

title: Bambino Gesù Hospital
text: report public. While some the 2014 report's recommendations were implemented, others were not. The Vatican later commissioned a second inquiry after a three-day hospital visit in 2015 and concluded that nothing was amiss after all. The hospital called the AP’s report a “hoax” that “contained false, dated and gravely defamatory accusations and conjectures". After Associated Press published the report, the Holy see released the following statement: “No hospital is perfect. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke. "But it is false and unjust to suggest that there are serious threats to the health of children at Bambino Gesu”. On 13 July 2017, it

title: Abortion in the Dominican Republic
text: medicine if they treated her. It took 10 weeks of debate before lawmakers decided that it would not be illegal for Esperancita to receive treatment to save her life. Dr. Antonio Cabrera reported that Esperancita had died on August 17, 2012, shortly after suffering a miscarriage followed by cardiac arrest. She was 13 weeks pregnant at the time of her miscarriage. Abortion in the Dominican Republic Abortion in the Dominican Republic is completely illegal. The Dominican Republic is one of the few countries of the world which have a complete ban on abortion, without an exception for saving maternal life.

title: Toronto hospital baby deaths
text: two nurses testified they had seen Traynor making a 21 March 1981 unauthorized injection into the IV of a baby who died three hours later. A commission of inquiry listed eight of the baby deaths as murder, with another 13 as highly suspicious. Later reports mention a total of thirty-two babies and three children. Traynor, who denied any impropriety in her behavior on the ward, was questioned in televised inquiry hearings, and resigned after the inquiry's report was published. Although chemical interaction between digoxin and rubber tubing used in its administration was used to question whether the deaths were the

title: Toronto hospital baby deaths
text: nurse being involved in a series of motiveless murders strained credulity. The exonerated nurse did not believe that there had been any murders, and in a 2011 interview she reiterated that the 1985 inquiry report had been incorrect in stating that many deaths during a rise in mortality on the ward (from one a week to five) had been deliberate homicides. Data from the investigation was sent to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which discovered that Traynor was the only person who had been on duty for all 29 cases of death being looked at. In 1984

title: University Hospital Galway
text: was ranked "worst-performing in the country". This resulted in political calls for the Irish Minister for Health to intervene, as it was the only hospital in the "red zone" in the ranking system, a classification denoting that management and the services provided, require attention. In October 2012, pregnant Indian lady Savita Halappanavar suffered a miscarriage and died after seeking treatment at the hospital. The death led to protests over Ireland's anti-abortion laws and investigations into the actions of the hospital during her treatment. The inquest returned a verdict of "medical misadventure" on 19 April 2013. In 2014 an independent review

title: Ann Arbor Hospital Murders
text: the nurses themselves) as well as archival news footage (which does show them). See also Toronto hospital baby deaths (another case in which nurses were accused of motiveless homicides). Ann Arbor Hospital Murders The Ann Arbor Hospital Murders were the murders of 10 patients by unauthorized administration in their IV of a curare drug Pavulon in an Ann Arbor, Michigan, Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital during 1975. After a huge FBI investigation Filipino nurses Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez were charged with murder but only found guilty on poisoning and conspiracy charges. Public opinion was against prosecution of the nurses on

title: Bronx-Lebanon Hospital attack
text: University School of Medicine in Dominica and was formerly a pharmacy technician in California. He worked as a night shift doctor at the hospital while trying to be admitted into the family medical residency program. A doctor who was killed, Dr. Tracey Tam, was randomly targeted, according to Dr. Sridhar Chilimuri, the hospital chief. Six others (three doctors, two medical students and a patient) were injured. The most seriously wounded was a doctor shot in the knee and brain, who underwent several hours of surgery on-site and was sent to Mt. Sinai Hospital for more. The other two doctors were

title: Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
text: was informed that the baby was stillborn and when she asked to see the body, she was told it could not be found. The bodies of four other children pronounced stillborn by the hospital that day were also missing. The suspicious "vanishing of babies" made headlines with some suggesting an ongoing illegal baby selling business by midwives and hospital authorities. Seven people were charged but given bail on February 27, 2014. Minister of Health Sherry Ayitey placed the doctor and midwife, as well as the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, on indefinite leave.She went ahead to propose a Ghc

title: Donka Hospital
text: intensive theoretical and practical training. Facilities were insufficient. CBM, Sightsavers and WAHO arranged to build a new facility in the teaching hospital compound, which was opened on 9 April 2010. A 1989 study found that maternal mortality at the hospital was 12.47 per 1,000, an extremely high figure. Causes include lack of primary health care or peripheral obstetrical services, poor training of nurses and midwives and lack of general health education among the public. In March 2011, the general wardroom for pre-mature babies in the Maternity Center had four incubators, but only one was working. It held five babies. The

title: Bambino Gesù Hospital
text: reported that the hospital changed its focus to prioritize profit over the health of the children there. The report found that overcrowding and poor hygiene contributed to deadly infection, including one 21-month superbug outbreak in the cancer ward that killed eight children. It also found that in order to save money, disposable equipment and other materials were at times used improperly, with a one-time order of cheap needles breaking when injected into tiny veins. The report also stated that doctors were so pressured to maximize operating-room turnover that patients were sometimes brought out of anesthesia too quickly. All of these

title: Toronto hospital baby deaths
text: result of foul play, the case is officially listed as one of unsolved murders. By Michael Newton (2006) Toronto hospital baby deaths The Toronto hospital baby deaths, believed to be homicides, occurred in the Cardiac ward of the Hospital for Sick Children between July 1980 and March 1981. They ended when the police were called in and the digitalis-type medication used for the killings (digoxin) began to be kept under lock and key. Three nurses were at the center of the investigation, and an apparent attempt to poison nurses' food. One of the nurses, Susan Nelles, was charged with four

title: 2017 Gorakhpur hospital deaths
text: Party accused the state government of encouraging corrupt practices at the hospital. 2017 Gorakhpur hospital deaths A large number of child deaths occurred at the state-run BRD Medical College hospital in Gorakhpur city of Uttar Pradesh, India in 2017. As of 2 September 2017, 1,317 children had died at the hospital in 2017. The 2017 deaths attracted national attention in August, when 325 children died at the hospital after the hospital's piped oxygen supply ran out. The number of child deaths in previous years were 5,850 in 2014; 6,917 in 2015; and 6,121 in 2016. Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) was