Brooklyn families are asking for answers after their loved ones died during childbirth at the city-run Woodhull Hospital.
NEW YORK — Brooklyn families are asking for answers from city health officials after their loved ones died during childbirth at the city-run Woodhull Hospital. The health department admits the Brooklyn hospital is facing a maternal health crisis.Families demand answers after emergency C-section deaths at Woodhull HospitalJose Perez, 42, lost the love of his life, Christine Fields, last November after she gave birth to their son, Anuel, at Woodhull Hospital.'They let my family down.
Friday afternoon, Perez joined another grieving family demanding answers outside the same city-run public hospital after 24-year old Bevorlin Barrios also died after having an emergency C-section in September. The medical examiner has not yet released her cause of death. 'She was fine and in the middle of something, then she's not fine?' Nelson Ramirez said.
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