Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Victim of socialized medicine? Mother dies after being given fatal epidural dose minutes after giving birth

Mayra Cabrera, a 30-year-old nurse from Swindon, England, suffered a heart attack and died within three hours of giving birth to a healthy son, after she was mistakenly given a fatal dose of an epidural anaesthetic. The same fatal mistake (injecting the dose into the arm instead of the spine) happened to two previous women in British hospitals.

Hospitals in England can be dangerous places.