About 50.000 mothers are severely injured each year in childbirth in the United States, a USA Today report published recently. Photo: MCT
YOLANDA Mention, who had just given birth to a baby girl at one of South Carolina’s top hospitals, should probably be alive today — certainly in a country with the world’s most advanced health care system.
But the 38-year-old wife and mother was sent home from the hospital in March 2015 with dangerously high blood pressure. That same night, she and her husband, Marco, returned to the ER.
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