Montfort Hospital

Neglect at Montfort Hospital - Ottawa, Ontario

“You cannot operate on my body like I’m not human and treat me like I’m not human. I deserve to know what happened and if this is part of procedures then it needs to be changed. Clearly the hospital procedures do not in any shape or form consider the life of the mother. I was treated as a human shell and shortly discarded. ”

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Catherine's Story - Montfort Hospital, Ottawa

"The nurse gave me an internal exam which confirmed the location of the baby. A doctor then gave me the same exam to reconfirm the location of the baby. Then, a third doctor gave me the same exam yet again, this time without requesting my consent. She was examining me for what seemed like a long time, even joking around with her colleagues while inside of me. I was getting more and more anxious, knowing that this was increasing the risk of infection."

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