In impasse: Young mother is 10 weeks pregnant and the law does not allow be treated
By: Elizabeth Romero
A woman aged 27 whose sister has cancer and is 10 weeks pregnant, yesterday appealed to the Nicaraguan Human Rights Center (Cenidh) to demand that the state allows terminate the pregnancy, and can be subjected to radiation treatment and thus extend your chance of living to ensure a 10 year old daughter he has.
The president of the Nicaraguan Human Rights Center (Cenidh), Vilma Núñez, who took the accompaniment of this case along the so-called Strategic Group against the Criminalization of Abortion-case called it a "dramatic and painful."
Núñez said that despite the patient to remain hospitalized for 17 days in the Oscar Danilo Rosales Hospital, Leon, has not received any treatment for cancer.
The Cenidh appealed yesterday to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) calling for precautionary measures in favor of the woman he identified only as Amalia, that the State of Nicaragua to ensure "appropriate access to quality health services to ensure effective treatment that the patient needs."
's sister Amalia, who carry the message said it was unable to continue talking because his words were interrupted by the tears on several occasions.
"We are asking that my sister will do the treatment, we are asking that my sister do not forget that a human being, we are asking that this treatment will be soon," the sister of Amalia, without continue.
The head of obstetrics at the hospital told him that Leon will not interrupt the pregnancy because it is against the law because it is a crime "practically tell with that message 'Morita', this practice is a person who is sentenced to death, stuck in the death row waiting to die, "said Nunez.
This, the president of Cenidh, is the result of "steel barriers to the exercise of women's rights has put the current government."
Chairwoman Cenidh criticized before knowing the diagnosis of cancer, Amalia had visited several times a hospital in Leon, where he never made a proper diagnosis. In the first instance presented with a skin sore that cost him a finger amputated, then followed with other gastric symptoms and lung, causing him he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. When she went to a private medical center was that he refused to suffer from the disease.
CANCER CONFIRMED
was not until 17 days ago Amalia went to Oscar Danilo Rosales Hospital when he was given the fatal News, suffered from cancer and was pregnant. Since then there has been and only have supplied iron for anemia and an allergy sufferer.
"Amalia is a person who has been repeatedly re-victimized because Amalia's ordeal does not begin for 17 days entered the Oscar Danilo Rosales, Leon (...) is a victim of medical negligence that began long ago when she attended a hospital presenting an ailment, a sore finger, "said Nunez.
Dr. Oscar Flores, a member of the Strategic Group, stated that it is a metastatic cancer spread throughout the body of Amalia, a problem compounded by the presence of pregnancy.
"As there are changes in immunological processes Amalia most likely, the presence of pregnancy will accelerate the spread of metastatic cancer that has at the moment, what is worse, that means being cut their lifetime and that means that their quality of life in which she will be, if the pregnancy progresses, it will be a very sad and delicate, "said Dr. Flores.
The doctor also said to apply a treatment cancer patients directly affect the pregnancy, "the safest occurring fetal death and pregnancy loss."
Therefore, Flores believes that the first thing you should order the termination of pregnancy and exercise therapy, with the intention that it be as effective as possible.
The problem, "the doctor said is that the country's laws" say that if we cause damage or unintended psychological or even a product to be born, go to jail. "
PRESS tried to get other medical opinions on the matter, but the specialist Dr. Ervin Rodriguez chose not to do so, because it is a case which does not know the clinical record.
Flores, meanwhile, expressed concern that the patient has three weeks of being admitted to the hospital in Leon, in three weeks has not made a decision.
THE TRANSFER
"The other option is to say the hospital and doctors (the hospital in León), we have our objection conscience because the law does not allow it and then we look how to refer to Amalia to Managua, to another hospital, another institution, where it can provide the care she needed to provide quality of life, "said Flores.
For group health advocate of the decriminalization of therapeutic abortion is very natural that there is fear among doctors (...) if you make abortion commit crime if they do and apply the treatment have to go to cause fetal death, will commit a crime and go to jail. "
Flores mentioned that is why it is urgent that the Supreme Court ruling as unconstitutional the resources that have been made against the criminalization of therapeutic abortion in the country.
Therapeutic abortion was criminalized in domestic law since 2006 and this matter considered as a violation of human rights in the country has been raised in recent reports that NGOs submitted to the United Nations.
