A TIME FOR ACTION IN BRITAIN! This apalling story is straight out of the darkest days of the Middle Ages...or from some primitive Third World country. Even Charles Dickens would be shocked and disgusted.

What the heck has happened to Great Britain?

"Will some responsible people please step forward and take charge!? You are urgently needed!!"

"There appears to be many serious social problems: in health, education, illegitimacy and teen pregnancies, alcoholism, immigration, affordable housing, etc., and too few serious, dedicated leaders speaking out and providing good leadership, action and example. If democracy fails, dictatorship may result."

Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA

This is absolutely appalling and makes you wonder how the state of healthcare ended up in this way. My condolences to Mrs Brown.

Roxanne Annoh, London,

Dear Yepoka I was recently undergoing an endoscopy at Queens Hospital in Romford and although it was nowhere near the dreadful experience that Ms Brown went through, I felt there was a general lack of concern overall. My request to be be properly sedated was not carried out efficiently and i suffered severe pain as i was concious enough to feel the whole procedure.
This was a most unpleasant experience and I was made to wait over two months for the result as the staff responsible had not forwarded the findings to my GP. It's a disgrace that a brand new Hospital costing £238 million is unable to provide suitably qualified staff to care for it's patients. Oldchurch Hospital which was closed down to make way for the new Queens Hospital showed me far more care and respect.

Mrs Carole Bas, Romford, UK

Alone with mum, terrified, no-help, in-a-toilet, in-pain, distort and then her wanted baby in front off her dying, then dead! can anyone imagine that this was worse than HELL for her!
MY HEART BLEEDS! when I think of this avoidable scenario!

Charles Linskaill, Edinburgh, UK

I am not normally this outspoken. But I feel I cannot let this be.

Incredible. I am ashamed to be part of this country. I would be devastatedly ashamed if I were a worker in the hospital concerned. Is this Great Britain? Is it fit for purpose - it's a hospital for goodness sake? No qualified staff to deal with the problem and just left to deal with the problem by herself? After such a shameful incident - oh yes, opening a new unit will sort out the problem for good - no way. Oh my God!

I hope the people who held the post of Health Ministers in the past few years can sleep soundly at night. What kind of NHS have they left behind, even after spending billions more of our money? Or this could just be a nightmare. Everything will be OK tomorrow. I wish.

MChung, ascot, UK

i am a mother of 3 children and i had all 3 at harold wood hospital and had no problems even though i did have a miscarrage when i was carying my 3rd child he was a twin and i must say all the staff at harold wood was brilliant so if they have shut down that maternity hospital where on earth have them good staff gone to i think the nhs should re-think of where they are placeing there staff i must say i really dont know how that lady must be felling down to the nhs attitued

laura , upminster, uninted kingdom

But she placed herself and on advice to get help from the NHS, she followed what they said and then seems to have been abandoned in a NHS hospital!
What she went through and the emotional scaring this has done to her is unbelievable!
Alone with mum, terrified, no-help, in-a-toilet, in-pain, distort and then her wanted baby in front off her dying, then dead! can anyone imagine that this was worse than HELL for her!

Charles Linskaill, Edinburgh, UK

She placed herself and on advice to get help from the NHS, she followed what they said and then seems to have been abandoned in a NHS hospital!
What she went through and the emotional scaring this has done to her is unbelievable!
Alone with mum, terrified, no-help, in-a-toilet, in-pain, distort and then her wanted baby in front off her dying, then dead! can anyone imagine that this was worse than HELL for her!

Charles Linskaill, Edinburgh, UK

I think we should not exaggerate the matter here.
We do appreciate the trauma the patient was subjected to and this should not happen in a moderrn unit.On the other hand I am sure the lady was aware it was non viable pregnancy at 22 weeks of gestation and by law considered as induced abortion.So using the phrase (He died almost immediately) showed as if there was a man slaughter which was not.
The non availability of trained staff reflects the overstreching of maternity and gynaecology units and action is required in that aspect.

R Faraj, Altrincham,