Unhealthy attitudes: Is Irish healthcare letting our new citizens down?

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Many women coming to Ireland from other countries have found themselves ignored, patronised and discriminated against in Irish healthcare settings. How can this situation be rectified? Chealy_ reports.

Jane Xavier was 22 weeks pregnant when she lost her first baby at an Irish maternity hospital in December 2018. The Brazilian social scientist had been admitted a fortnight earlier after her waters broke. She worried about the risk of infection, as she was placed on a ward shared with five other women.

“I raised my concerns, but nobody seemed to care,” she says. “One doctor came up to me and said, ‘We’re going to ...

 

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