Filipina Nurse Sued New York Hospital

Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, 35 years old, is a nurse who is a native of the Philippines. She moved to New York in 2001. She started working at Mount Sinai Hospital as an operating nurse in 2004. This Filipina nurse was apparently forced by a hospital to help in a late-term abortion practice in Brooklyn, New York City and she had filed charges against the hospital.  The incident was reported last May 24. The nurse reported that she was threatened by Mount Sinai Hospital. Insubordination and patient-abandonment will be charged to her if she rejects to assist in the abortion method. The hospital also cut her overtime schedule. Cenzon-DeCarlo, is a married mother of a year-old baby, a devout catholic, and niece of a Filipino bishop.

The patient was in her 22 weeks of pregnancy. In the proceedings of Cenzon-DeCarlo, the hospital had informed her that the patient experienced "Preeclampsia", a condition that may result to seizures or death if not treated. But she contests to this statement. She proved that the patient was not treated by giving magnesium therapy, a common cure for preeclampsia. Based from the hospital's record, the procedure called Category II is not considered a threat to one's life. Cenzon-DeCarlo planned to file a grievance with her union, according to a report. [via]