This morning during a ceremony in Hurtado Park, President Sebastián Piñera promulgated the project known as the “Dominga Law”, which provides support and a more humane treatment to those families who lose a son or daughter during pregnancy, during childbirth or shortly after birth.
This law modifies the regulations that regulate the rights and duties that people have in their health care. The initiative aims to promote more empathetic conditions with clinical accompaniment or physical-emotional management. In addition, within 6 months they must integrate protocols of behaviors defined in health institutions for the care of patients experiencing a case of perinatal death.
The law also amends the Labour Code so that the family that suffered the loss of a newborn son or daughter is entitled to 10 days of paid leave. In case of gestational death, the leave will be 7 days.
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During this ceremony were present, the Minister of Health Enrique Paris, the Undersecretary of Women, María José Abud, the Undersecretary of Health Paula Daza, the Undersecretary of Healthcare Networks Alberto Dougnac and Aracelly Brito, the main promoter of the law.
The name of the project arises in homage to Dominga, a case that occurred in 2020 when Aracelly Brito along with her partner Maximiliano González had already suffered a loss, so the birth of their daughter Dominga was a new illusion in them. However, after 36 weeks of gestation the mother had a loss and accuses that she was the victim of ill-treatment by the medical staff, a fact that she made public so that no other family suffers the same pain.
