Fans were shocked and sad to hear that Hiromi Hayawaka Salas passed away on Wednesday due to complications related to her pregnancy. Apparently, her unborn child had died a day before in her womb, which caused Hiromi to go into cardiac arrest, bleed out and die.
“I spoke to her in the afternoon and she told me that she had gone to the gynecologist and that everything was fine, that Julieta was fine, that she already weighed 2.9 kilos so she might be born early, and yesterday she had a strong pain in her stomach,” says Lourdes Elsa Salas, Hiromi’s mother in an interview Hoy. Her granddaughter, Julieta, died a day before and Hiromi Wednesday morning.
According to her doctors, Hiromi died from an internal hemorrhage since her baby died in her womb a day before she did. “They talk about a hemorrhage that they were able to control, she had surgery, then surgery again the next morning around 11 and they stopped the hemorrhage, but she had various cardiac attacks again and again. After the fourth cardiac arrest, she died, but then they called the doctor and said that she had vital signs, but two minutes later she didn’t,” says her mother. The doctors told her that this situation has only happened 4 times in 20 years, which isn’t much consolation.
Salas is very worried for her son-in-law, Luis Fernando Santana, who stood by her daughter’s side until the very end. He hasn’t left her side and has cried all day, she says. “She was so happy, so in love, so happy to become a mother, she had fulfilled many of her dreams in the theatre but becoming a mother filled her life and thank God she found such a great husband.”
According to the CDC, the number of women dying during or shortly after childbirth is increasing and the leading cause is obstetric hemorrhage or excessive bleeding that takes place during the delivery or after. Unfortunately, experts estimate that more than half of these deaths could be prevented.