Expectation women’s care can be ‘done on the cheap’
There is a "constant expectation" that women's health services and care can be "done on the cheap", an MP has said.
Aliciakearns, who told the House of commons she was denied a Caesarean section until her husband noticed their unborn son's heart rate had plummeted to non existent, said NHS bureaucracies are" inherently and systematically sexist".
The Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton was speaking after the publication of theo ck end en report - the independent review of maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.
The review found that 201 babies and nine mothers could have or would have survived if thenhs trust had provided better care.
Ms Kearns told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: "The anger and the heartbreak that I have felt, and clearly you have felt, and so many of us have felt,i have to say that, as an MP, over the last two-and-a-half years I have sadly had to conclude that NHS bureaucracies are inherently and systematically sexist.
"There is a constant expectation that women' s services and care can bed one on the cheap, or that because women have given birth for generations and generations they don't deserve the support they need."
Ms K earns said her mother heard her speak in week, andre called that, when she was giving birth to Ms K earns' brother, she had asked for an she' d been in labour for so many days and in so much pain".
Ms Kearns told the programme: "She remembers being screamed at by the consultant and told 'You think you're special, you're not special, women do this every day'”.