RT @RicoFresco_@twitter.com
SAY HER NAME. April Valentine. Died in childbirth on January 10, 2023 “at Centinela hospital due to medical neglect. She and her bf complained for hours to the nurses that she could not feel her legs and they told her they could not call the doctors bc they would get upset.”
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RicoFresco_/status/1617566548889157635
Black women are THREE TIMES more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than WW, bc racism, neglect, minimizing of pain &symptoms—as April experienced.
May April’s memory be a blessing to everyone she touched.
May it be a revolution towards a world free of medical racism.
Mortality rates for Black newborns are cut in half when the birth is being attended by a Black physician, particularly in complicated cases: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1913405117
