A Black Mother Died After a C-Section in 2016. Her Family Filed a Lawsuit Claiming Her Race Led to Poor Care
Kira died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA in April of 2016 following the scheduled C-section delivery of her son Langston.
“After allowing my wife to bleed and suffer needlessly while my family and myself begged and pleaded for them to simply treat her with dignity and respect,” he said. Now Johnson is suing Cedars-Sinai under the Unruh Civil Rights Act, claiming Kira was given poor care because she was Black. “Some of the surgeons that was on that field, the ones that drug out their decision making – in my heart I felt that, ‘Is it due to her being a woman of color?’ Yes, in my opinion,” Washington said.
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