Belgrade hospital refuses to return baby to mother
{{date|February 10, 2007}}

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The Belgrade Neonatology Institute has refused to hand over a child to her mother, after she was unable to pay her medical bills. 

[[w:Macedonia|Macedonian]] Senija Roganovic, who has no health insurance of any kind and cannot come up with the money for the bill, gave birth to the baby two months ago at and owes US$8,290.91 in hospital bills.

20-year old Roganovic has been sedated for the past two months and has lost 30 pounds of weight, possibly due to anxiety over what might happen to her child. During this period the hospital only let her see the baby once and she was not allowed to breast-feed her son.

On the 7th of February, Roganovic told her story to a journalist from the daily paper ''[[w:Kurir|Kurir]]''. After media reports the following day, the hospital finally let the baby go yesterday.

==Sources==
*{{source|url=http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=19832
|title=Hospital Kept Baby Hostage For Two Months
|author=
|pub=Javno.com
|date=February 9, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/02092007/news/weirdbuttrue/weirdbuttrue.htm
|title=Weird but true
|author=Lukas I. Alpert, Wire Services
|pub=New York Post
|date=February 9, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2193312.html
|title=Hospital holds baby hostage
|author=
|pub=Ananova
|date=February 8, 2007}}

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[[de:Belgrad: Krankenhaus behielt Baby als Pfand für offene Rechnung]]
[[it:Ospedale di Belgrado rifiuta di dare un bimbo alla propria madre]]
The Belgrade Neonatology Institute has refused to hand over a child to her mother, after she was unable to pay her medical bills. 

Macedonian Senija Roganovic, who has no health insurance of any kind and cannot come up with the money for the bill, gave birth to the baby two months ago at and owes US$8,290.91 in hospital bills.

20-year old Roganovic has been sedated for the past two months and has lost 30 pounds of weight, possibly due to anxiety over what might happen to her child. During this period the hospital only let her see the baby once and she was not allowed to breast-feed her son.

On the 7th of February, Roganovic told her story to a journalist from the daily paper Kurir. After media reports the following day, the hospital finally let the baby go yesterday.


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