A Massachusetts hospital is under review, after two women died in the medical facility shortly after giving birth.
The Public Health Department in the state is looking into two cases at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass, according to spokesperson with the agency Anne Roach, who spoke with the Boston Globe on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the hospital is conducting its own probe into the deaths of 32-year-old Colleen Celia and 30-year-old Christie Billodeau Fazio.
"Early indications are that both these cases were unpreventable and unanticipated," spokesperson for the Weymouth hospital Sarah Darcy told the Globe. Health Department officials said they couldn't disclose further information on the cases because they were part of an investigation.
Celia, a mother of four from Middleborough, died last Wednesday at the hospital while giving birth to a baby girl, the Globe reported Celia's father as saying.
Raymond Romero told the Boston Globe that Celia was labeled as a high-risk pregnancy due to a medical issue called placenta previa. Pregnant women who have this irregular placenta growth often must give birth by caesarean section. Celia died from complications soon after the baby was born.
30-year-old Christie Billodeau Fazio of Marshfield died after giving birth to a baby boy. She was employed by South Shore Hospital, where she worked as a nurse.
It is rare for a woman to die in childbirth - according to the Globe, 52 maternal deaths were reported in Massachusetts from 2000-2010.
