In late 2024, Rasha Maher was rushed to Mansoura University Hospital after her water broke and a uterine rupture left her in critical condition, requiring urgent medical care.
Instead, she spent three days waiting in a delivery room before being transferred to a high-risk pregnancy ward. Rather than receiving the treatment she desperately needed, she says she was met with insults from medical staff and repeated requests for tips.
"The doctors, nurses and even the hospital workers treated me harshly," recalls Rasha, a journalist in her thirties.
"During gynaecological examinations, they would shout at me if I reacted to the pain, then simply leave me there and walk away."
To her horror, she found the bathrooms flooded with blood, discarded diapers, and insects.
Her ordeal mirrors a wave of public outrage sparked in June, when Egyptians woke up to a viral Facebook post by Dr Omnia Sweidan detailing the violence and harassment she says she witnessed women endure during childbirth while she was an intern at El-Shatby Hospital in Alexandria six years earlier.
Within hours, the post had attracted thousands of comments and shares, prompting mothers, doctors and healthcare workers across Egypt to recount their own experiences of abuse and neglect in maternity wards.
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