Another woman has died during childbirth at Woodhull Hospital in Bed-Stuy – the third woman of color to die while in labor at the hospital since 2020.
Bevorlin Garcia Barrios, 24, died at the hospital September 15 after undergoing an emergency C-section, according to her boyfriend, Nelson Ramirez.
Ramirez said Barrios went to the hospital because she wasn’t feeling well.
He said doctors took her in to perform the C-section and then came out a short time later and told him Barrios had died.
Ramirez said he still doesn’t know what happened to her.
“I done crying at this point,” he said. “I done crying. I want something to be solved.”
Last November, Christine Fields, 30, died after undergoing a C-section at Woodhull Hospital.
The New York City Medical Examiner said she died of internal hemorrhaging.
Her family is taking legal action against the hospital alleging https://abc7ny.com/woodhull-hospital-c-section-pregnant-woman-dies-lawsuit/14330983/ Fields suffered cuts to her blood vessels which caused internal bleeding. In 2020, Sha-Asia Washington, 26, died https://abc7ny.com/mother-dies-during-childbirth-black-births-matter-c-section-sha-asia-washington/6309574/ after having a C-section at Woodhull. The babies of all three women survived.