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Inquiry into miscarriage horror in hospital toilet
An inquiry has been launched into the ordeal of a pregnant woman who was ignored by staff at a Sydney hospital before miscarrying in the emergency department toilet.
Jana Horska, who was 14 weeks pregnant, miscarried after waiting almost two hours for medical assistance at Royal North Shore Hospital last night.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma and Health Minister Reba Meagher have extended their condolences to Ms Horska and insist an inquiry will put the family first.
The review will be conducted by the head of the Royal Hospital for Women at Randwick, Professor William Walters and the head of the Clinical Excellence Commission Cliff Hughes.
It'll report back on October 26.
Horska's husband, Mark Dreyer, has told 2GB's Alan Jones he is horrified at the treatment his wife has received and has described what happened.
"Here's my wife, sitting on a toilet, screaming... an image in my mind I'll never be able to get out is the look on her face," he said.
"Tears, hysterical, pants around the ankles holding a live foetus in her hands, between her legs in a toilet bowl."
Peter - Mr Dreyer's cousin - who had taken Ms Horska to the hospital, says the treatment they received was disgraceful.
“When we weren’t looking she walked off into the toilet and had a miscarriage,” he said.
“People have come running [from] everywhere. I can’t go into the finer details, it’s just so gruesome, mate. It’s just something I wouldn’t say on air. She’s holding the little foetus in her hand, basically, and was wheeled out of the toilet in front of this packed waiting room.”
"Not only that, but once they found her a bed they left her lying with the foetus between her legs for one hour."
New South Wales Shadow Health Minister Jillian Skinner says it's a damning indictment of the state's health system.
"This is such a heartbreaking example of what happens when a hospital is basically dysfunctional," she said...
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