A girl who suffered a miscarriage is grieving for a second time after learning she was given the flawed stays.
Alberta Health Services (AHS) has admitted the error was the results of a lab error.
Cara Roan is now speaking out within the hope the identical thing doesn’t occur again.
“I would not want this to occur to some other mother on the market, like ever, because that is devastating,” she said in an interview Tuesday.
In January, Roan was 4 months pregnant when she began to experience complications.
Roan made several visits to a close-by hospital in Wetaskiwin, about 65 kilometres south from downtown Edmonton. On January 27, she miscarried while there.
A few weeks later she went to select up the stays.
“They said, yes we normally don’t do that on weekends but you’ll be able to pick up your baby so long as she has ID. So we went and picked up the infant,” Roan said.
Roan and her relations held a service and buried the stays at Mountain Creek Camp in northwest Alberta.
A number of days later, she received some disturbing news.
“They called me and said that they gave me the flawed baby,” Roan said.
My heart broke into 1,000,000 pieces. My heart sank.– Cara Roan
“My heart broke into 1,000,000 pieces. My heart sank.”
In equivalent statements sent to CBC News, each AHS and laboratory services provider Dynalife said the error was made on the lab.
“We provide our deepest apologies to the 2 families who were impacted. This error must have not happened,” AHS and Dynalife said.
“AHS is taking this incident very seriously and is reviewing what happened on this case to find out the way it occurred, and what could be done in a different way to make sure it never happens again … AHS is providing the family with a written apology and is on the market to hearken to their concerns and answer any questions they could have.”
Second burial
“It’s just heartbreaking. I simply cannot wrap my head around it,” Roan said.
The considered digging up the stays was unbearable for Roan, who’s Indigenous.
“You do not return and dig up a body. It is not right in our culture,” she said.
Ultimately, Roan said a physician helped her exhume the unique stays to return to the opposite family impacted. She has since received the proper stays and held a second burial service.
Roan is considering legal motion over the ordeal.
“To search out out that it wasn’t … my baby I put away the primary time, to must do it the second time, it was hard,” she said.
“I’m totally broken from this. I do not even have the words for it.”