Shocking footage of a pregnant teen being dropped TWICE by medics

This is the painful moment paramedics dropped a pregnant teenager as they transferred her from an ambulance into hospital.


The 16-year-old patient was being lifted out of the ambulance on a stretcher on her way to intensive care in El Carmen hospital in Huancayo, central Peru.


It is unclear why she needed urgent medical attention, but she later gave birth by caesarean section.


Video footage captured at the scene shows a medic losing her grip on the stretcher as a team of four work together to lower the patient from the ambulance.


Amid much shouting, the medics eventually managed to erect the trolley properly and wheel the patient into the hospital.


Director of El Carmen hospital, Manuel Adrian Acosta, said that the patient, whose name was not revealed, is in the intensive care unit.


Her baby was born by C-section without problems.


The young mother had been waiting inside the ambulance for more than 40 minutes because medical staff had refused to attend her despite her serious condition, local media reported.


Mr Acosta denied these allegations and said that the patient was treated according to protocol.