A 41-week pregnant woman committed suicide after her family refused to let her have a caesarean section.
Ma, 26, jumped from a window in a hospital in northern Shaanxi province on August 31.
The child she carries also died in the said incident.
Ma apparently "left the ward twice and told her family that the pain was unbearable, and that she wanted a caesarean section, but the family were not willing to allow the procedure," Huo Junwei, a doctor at the Yulin Number One hospital.
Yan, her husband, however denied this, saying that "we did not disagree to a caesarean".
Her doctors decided that "the large foetal head circumference meant that vaginal delivery would have been very risky".
But "the family said they understood, but refused the surgery, and wanted to keep the situation under observation."
Her husband had even asked doctors to find someone "familiar with caesarean procedures".
His wife had disappeared as soon as he dropped his phone.
"Knowing my wife's character, I did not think she would have had such a strong reaction," he said.
Caesarean procedures pose a slightly higher risk than natural births, but can cause a ruptured uterus, or a low-lying placenta, that can cause complications for future pregnancies.
Source: BBC
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