This is an issue in almost every hospital. And it isn’t as simple as a ‘not enough beds’ issue, it means that there aren’t enough qualified, trained medical staff available on wards to treat and oversee patients. They can’t have too many patients to staff, then everyone gets suboptimal care. There are incredible doctors and nurses being trained and looking for work, the hospitals need the budgets to take them on and give the public system the ability to help more people

Just heartbreaking when you hear things like this 🙁

What a total and utter disgrace! Not on!

This is disgusting! This should not happen ever!

I would hate to work there. Imagine not being able to care for people the way that is ideal. There are no winners here.

Sadly, they’re not the only hospital with problems.

What a horrible thing to go through, especially in that situation! I really feel for her having been through this myself 🙁

Why was the women not given a bed if there was 9 available? The poor women to go through such a horrible experience on a chair. Not good enough.

OMG, this is such a terrible story. This woman’s miscarriage is tragic enough, but the indignity of having this happen in a chair in a hospital is unforgiveable.

Unfortunately this can happen. Also I have seen mothers who are booked for an elective caesarean section be put through a trial of scar or labour despite me pleading to get hold of the obstetrician . Some midwives sometimes paddle their own canoe so to speak. One feels so utterly helpless in these situations.

Without knowing all the details as in how far along was the lady & what risks she might have had to cause a miscarriage it would be wrong to judge the hospital for it.
My 1st pregnancy (before the 3 month mark) I was told I would definitely miscarry when I presented with bleeding & was sent home rather than stay at the hospital so I could be more comfortable. Turned out I was pregnant with twins & lost one but there was no emotional attachment because I did not know at the time there were 2 babies. It happened again when I was further along on my 2nd pregnancy & I started having contractions as well as spotting. I had refused an obstetrician till that point because they had made my life hell with my first birth & caused PID. So went to my GP who had also been an Obstetrician but had left that side of medicine, she sent me for a tests & it turned out I was going to lose a twin again.
As hard as it is to go through it there is little anyone can do to prevent it & if it is very early in a pregnancy they do not like to intervene. If you were a high risk pregnancy your doctor would have given you contact numbers in case it went wrong after hours & created a plan for you to use if something started going wrong.

This happened to me, too, basically. I was left sitting on a chair, blubbering, for hours in a waiting room, because there were no beds available, and as people walked in and were sent for X-rays and Ultrasounds because they were considered a ‘higher priority’ to me, because if I was having a miscarriage, there wasn’t much that could be done, anyway(a nurse’s words to me).
Finally, I was seen, and an ultrasound showed that I appeared to still have a foetus, so they gave me a cup of tea and a sandwich, as I had been there so long, and pushed me to eat. Then a doctor came in to see me and explained that they had decided, based on dates, that my baby had stopped growing some weeks before, and that I needed a D&C. They prepped me for the operation and even had me on a drip, before the anaesthetist told me they couldn’t do it at the moment, because they had given me something to eat.
They sent me home, on a Saturday, to return on the Monday for the op to remove ‘degenerative products of pregnancy’.
The whole experience was extremely traumatic, and was handled, I believe, abominably by the hospital.

This is so sad and worse part all to common my daughter was misscarrying and got sent home the hospital said nothing we can do you will have to let it pass..

What an awful situation ! It would be good when there were more beds & staff.

This is shocking!!! Revolting is a better word. Which country do we live?! I really feel for this lady going through such a hard situation and didn’t have at least a proper care from our hospitals. 🙁

Thar is totally humiliating and disgusting for that dear woman. Our health systems needs to lift its game. People aren’t animals waiting in a vet clinic they must be afforded more dignity than that whilst they are waiting for treatment or care. Shame on our health system and those who are in charge of the running of it.

This has happened before in all states of Australia – usually with the first child. Although it’s unfortunate, none of us has a crystal ball to see what is about to happen. I feel sorry for the mother – but in this new modern era things will only get worse, not better. Too many people, insufficient money for hospitals and staff and this will get incrementally worse.

Simple, MORE staff and MORE beds. The nurses are “run off their feet”. Some don’t even take their full allotted meal breasa because they know patients aren’t always getting the attention they need. Is there another hospital some of the seriously ill patients waiting to help could have been diverted to. They do it in Adelaide, surely they could do it in Hobart? Even if they use a different hospital to assess and stabilize patients before transferring them back to go into a specialist ward. I reckon there is probably some empty wards. Why couldn’t they have grabbed some from there – even if the patients were in a passage. Not ideal, but at least they would have been on beds.

What a tragic situation, the hospital seriously needs to get its act together.

Disgraceful. Poor woman! 🙁