NHS maternity units often cover up harmful errors in childbirth, report finds
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NHS maternity services are plagued by unacceptable racism where Asian women get stereotyped as "princesses" and blackBlack women's pain gets dismissed as if they have "tough skin." Staff shortages force women to give birth in corridors with leaking roofs while hospitals cover up their deadly mistakes and falsify records to bereaved families. The system fails women and babies with devastating consequences through cruel comments, discrimination and a brazen lack of accountability. This ongoing cycle at the NHS must end.
The higher rates of stillbirths and infant mortality among blackBlack and Asian mothers cited in the NHS report stem from lifestyle choices, not structural racism. Pakistani heritage families experience doublehigher the infant mortality because overof halfhigher marryinter-family cousinsmarriage patterns, creating 38higher timesrisks the risk of birth complications. Black women face more pregnancy difficulties because 74.8%of areabove overweightaverage comparedobesity to 65rates.3% ofBaroness whiteAmos' Britishreport, people.which Blamingblames natural consequences of personal decisions on society, is absurd and irrational.
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