In the early hours of Monday, July 7, a 33-year-old woman was admitted to a private hospital in Mirandela with back pain, eventually giving birth without knowing she was pregnant. Unfortunately, the baby died by the end of Tuesday, July 8.
The incident occurred as the woman arrived at the Permanent Medical Care facility at Hospital Terra Quente, complaining of “severe back pain” and unaware of her pregnancy. During examinations, she “unexpectedly went into labor.”
The hospital stated on Facebook that “the medical team on duty reacted swiftly and effectively.”
During the delivery, a nurse accompanied the woman while a doctor ensured her clinical stabilization and coordinated with INEM to activate necessary emergency resources.
Upon their arrival, the baby, “premature,” had already been born and both the mother and child were “stable.”
The mother and child were later transferred to the neonatal unit at Hospital de Vila Real.
The young mother was unaware of her pregnancy. She entered the hospital with back pain and left with a baby in her arms. Both mother and child are fine.
Andrea Pinto | 12:28 – 09/07/2025
Baby Died on Tuesday
It is now known that the baby died at the end of Tuesday at the Centro Materno Infantil do Norte in Porto. A hospital source stated that the baby died at the Centro Materno Infantil do Norte in Porto.
No further details were provided about the cause of death. However, it was reported that the 33-year-old woman has been discharged from the hospital.
The baby of the young woman who was admitted to the Permanent Medical Care at Hospital Terra Quente in Mirandela, unaware of her pregnancy, died at the Centro Materno Infantil do Norte in Porto, late Tuesday afternoon.
Notícias ao Minuto | 17:30 – 12/07/2025
Notably, three babies have died in the regions of Lisbon and Leiria over three weeks. In the first two cases, two pregnant women lost their babies due to emergency room closures.
The third woman, who was 26 weeks pregnant, gave birth in an ambulance en route to the Hospital of Leiria and the baby did not survive.
Cases are proliferating rapidly: pregnant women face complications amid chaos in the SNS. Three newborns have died in three weeks.
Carolina Pereira Soares | 09:45 – 11/07/2025
In an interview, Health Minister Ana Paula Martins expressed “deep regret” over the outcome of the first two cases—known at the time—stating that “it could hardly have been avoided.” She added that “medicine still can’t solve everything” and emphasized that “we cannot normalize the idea of closed emergency services being normal.”
The Health Minister noted that the outcomes of the recent cases of pregnant women losing their babies “could hardly have been avoided,” as “medicine can’t solve everything yet.”
Daniela Filipe | 22:41 – 09/07/2025
Last Thursday, July 10, a pregnant woman delivered her baby in a car while headed to Hospital Garcia de Orta in Almada. The vehicle had to stop on the roadside along the IC21, between Barreiro and the A2 motorway.
The woman, residing in Barreiro, was heading to Almada because the obstetric emergency units at Hospital de Nossa Senhora do Rosário were closed.
The family contacted INEM on Thursday afternoon, but decided to head to the hospital by themselves after hanging up the call.
Carolina Pereira Soares | 14:07 – 11/07/2025
