A woman ended up giving birth outside the locked doors of the Sainte-Croix hospital in Drummondville, Que., early Tuesday morning in a turn of events Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé has since called “unacceptable.”
The woman, her husband and two-year-old son mistakenly showed up at the hospital’s main entrance instead of heading to the emergency department, a five-minute walk away.
A security guard working inside the building spotted the family and tried redirecting them with hand signals but did not open the door. It wasn’t until a patient alerted staff on the fifth floor that two nurses rushed outside to help the woman as she gave birth on a park bench.
In a statement to Radio-Canada, authorities at the CIUSS de la Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec said they’re looking into what happened. They said the security guard “was removed from work for failing to assist in this situation” and will no longer be assigned to any of their facilities.
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