A pregnant woman threatened with a premature delivery ended up having a miscarriage after about a dozen hospitals refused to accept her, forcing her to wait for more than three hours before she was finally accepted by a hospital in another city.

A hospital in Tokyo's Arakawa-ku said that the woman, who is in her 30s, was diagnosed as facing a premature delivery on the morning of Nov. 29 last year, and needed to be transferred to a hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit.

The 53-year-old head of the hospital phoned other hospitals in the Tokyo Metropolitan area asking them to accept her, but they all refused, saying their neonatal intensive care units were full. Among the institutions were several that were recognized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as institutions providing high quality medical care.

The hospital head decided it would be difficult to find an institution in Tokyo to accept the woman, and asked another hospital in Kawasaki, where a doctor he was familiar with worked, to take her in. She finally arrived at the hospital that afternoon, but five days later she had a miscarriage.(Mainichi)

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