The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Sunday that the authorities are guaranteeing that the law of Respected Delivery in the case of a pregnant woman Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu community what was it arrested and transferred to the Bariloche hospital.
The State portfolio reported that “it became aware of a possible breach of Law 25,929 on Respected Childbirth involving a woman from the Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu community who was pregnant with a due date and was detained, resulting in her death. transfer to the Bariloche hospital”.
“In view of the foregoing, the Reference Team for the implementation of the respected childbirth law contacted members of the Mapuche community to guarantee perinatal health care with cultural relevance,” he explained.
And he said that “in this sense, the hospital was asked to respect the right to be accompanied provided for in article 2 of the Law 25,929a request that in turn had already been presented by the hospital authorities to the intervening court, and that resulted in the effective entry of his püñeñelchefe, empirical midwife and an authorization to remain accompanied “.
The ministry that leads Carla Vizotti He noted that “since then, the aforementioned technical team maintains permanent communication with its counterpart from Rio Negro and with the Mapuche community, monitoring the situation and the status of the person so that Law No. 25,929 on Respected Childbirth is fully complied with.”
“It should be emphasized that, within the framework of the recent Law 27,611 of Attention and Comprehensive Health Care during Pregnancy and Early Childhoodknown as the 1000 Days Law (which aims to protect, strengthen and accompany comprehensive life and health care for pregnant people and children in their first 3 years), compliance with the Respected Childbirth Law is one of the prioritized policies, so much so that training courses on “Respectful Births and Births” are developed in the jurisdictions, in coordination with the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity”.
He added that “In Argentina, 99.1% of deliveries take place within health providers. By virtue of the responsibility of the National State to make effective the right to childbirth and birth as a human rightthe Ministry of Health of the Nation, as the law enforcement body, consolidated the Reference Team for the implementation of the law of respected childbirth, within the scope of the Directorate of Perinatal and Childhood Health and the Directorate of Gender and Diversity”.
“It carries out actions articulated with the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity of the Nation, working together with the 24 jurisdictions and with the health effectors involved for effective compliance with the law,” he stressed.
Law No. 25,929 on Respectful Childbirth was enacted in 2004 and regulated in 2015 and expresses not only the rights that must be guaranteed during childbirth, but also during pregnancy, birth and the puerperium, he explained.
The ministry specified that “since October 2020, when the Reference Team for the implementation of the respected childbirth law was created, they received, through the 0800 Sexual Health Line, the 144 Containment Line, attention
