Content warning: references pregnancy loss
When Reena Rana miscarried her first pregnancy in 2013, she waited at the hospital’s A&E department for hours.
“I was two and a half months pregnant and I started spotting. I rushed to the hospital, and they said, ‘Why don’t you take a seat, we are very busy. They made me sit for four and half hours,” the 36-year-old said.
It wasn’t until Reena lost more blood that she said she was given more attention, and then sent home with the message that she had lost her baby.
“It’s a very emotional time, and there was no empathy. If they could just explain the procedure to me, [instead] they said, ‘When you have big clots, you come and see us’. That’s not very nice.”