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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray

Family accuse London hospital of ‘negligence and discrimination’ after death of mother and baby

Fowsiyo Ali Waeys, who wears a black dress and a hijab, standing in a courtyard looking at the camera
Fowsiyo Ali Waeys (pictured) said her sister had bled heavily after giving birth, but claimed staff ‘were telling her she was fine’. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Ayaan Waeys was 36 when she died at St Thomas’ hospital in London after giving birth to her first child, a girl who was stillborn two months before her due date in 2022.

Her sister, Fowsiyo Ali Waeys, said there had been many signs that she was probably suffering from pre-eclampsia, a pregnancy complication, but she was not seen by a doctor at the hospital appointments she attended in the weeks before her death.

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