A medical student participating in an internship at a maternity hospital in Rio de Janeiro was expelled from the unit after being caught with an electronic cigarette inside a delivery room. She would have used the device while a patient was giving birth and would have continued with the device, even after being reprimanded by hospital professionals, according to reports.
The case occurred at Leila Diniz Municipal Maternity Hospital, in Barra da Tijuca, in the West Zone. The young woman was registered by one of the people in the room. In the image, which went viral on social media, you can see her with an electronic cigarette.
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The same report also states that the young woman would have been removed from the private university where she studies after the incident – information that has not yet been confirmed by the teaching unit, which, when contacted, did not respond until the time of publication of this article. Maternity already confirmed what happened to OSG. The hospital management said that it “regrets the attitude of the medical student, caught with the device, even if apparently turned off, in the obstetric center” and highlighted that the use of cigarettes of any kind “is expressly prohibited” in the unit.
A medical student participating in an internship at a maternity hospital in Rio de Janeiro was expelled from the unit after being caught with an electronic cigarette inside a delivery room. She would have used the device while a patient was giving birth and would have continued with the device, even after being reprimanded by hospital professionals, according to reports.
The case occurred at Leila Diniz Municipal Maternity Hospital, in Barra da Tijuca, in the West Zone. The young woman was registered by one of the people in the room. In the image, which went viral on social media, you can see her with an electronic cigarette.
read more:
The same report also states that the young woman would have been removed from the private university where she studies after the incident – information that has not yet been confirmed by the teaching unit, which, when contacted, did not respond until the time of publication of this article. Maternity already confirmed what happened to OSG. The hospital management said that it “regrets the attitude of the medical student, caught with the device, even if apparently turned off, in the obstetric center” and highlighted that the use of cigarettes of any kind “is expressly prohibited” in the unit.
