According to a new government study 7 in 10 baby deaths were due to government run healthcare.
A government-funded study has found that 71 per cent of baby deaths or neonatal brain injuries could have been avoided if the National Health Service (NHS) had given better care.
The ‘Every Baby Counts’ project, by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), looked at 1,123 babies who were stillborn, died within a week of birth, or were born brain-damaged in 2016 in a report published Tuesday.
Of those 1,123, 124 (11 per cent) were stillborn, 145 newborns died within the first week of birth, and 854 suffered brain damage, often due to deprivation of oxygen during labour.
In 45 per cent of cases, midwives and obstetricians were found to have failed to follow best practice or guidelines, including lack of training or not responding to warning signs sufficiently. Each case had an average of seven failings where actions were inadequate or went wrong.
The report also blamed overwhelmed maternity units and staff shortages.
Co-investigator of Every Baby Counts and vice-president of the RCOG told The Guardianthat “Sadly, this latest report from Each Baby Counts shows that different care might have made a difference to the outcome for almost three-quarters of affected babies.â€
This statistic is beyond comprehension and shows exactly what is wrong with government run healthcare. You are no longer a human under these systems but rather you become a number in a system.
