Big Brother star Sallie Axl has slammed an NHS hospital for treating her miscarried baby without respect, after allegedly being handed her body in a plastic bag.
Opening up for the first time since the traumatic event on 17 July this year, Sallie slammed Saint Mary’s hospital in Manchester on Instagram and said her baby had been treated like “a takeaway”.
“On the 17th of July I received my dead baby at St Mary's hospital in a box and a plastic bag ...!! With that another bag of medicines and sent on my way home to grieve,” she wrote next to a picture of the child’s makeshift coffin.
“My dead baby was treat[ed] no more than someone handing me over a takeaway. This is the first time I have been able to talk about this as my ordeal was disgusting.”
Sallie said she had sadly lost her baby seven weeks earlier, when she was past her first trimester, but the feotus hadn't been removed.
She then underwent a Class IV haemorrhage, which is the most serious type, and lost 40% of her blood, leaving her close to death.
“I didn’t have long left to live and have honestly never been so scared in my life,” Sallie added.
“This should not happen to women who lose their unborn children !! I should NOT of been left to take my dead child home in a plastic bag!”
She called on the NHS to “stop this happening” in hospitals, but paid tribute to her other daughter Nirvana for “seeing me through”.
Sallie also alleged that the hospital staff “took days” to change her blood-stained sheets and gown, and said there was “no compassion” towards her child.
When heat got in touch, a representative for Saint Mary’s Hospital said it will be releasing a statement on Sallie Axl’s treatment tomorrow morning.