San Luis Potosi joined the initiatives at the national level to implement spaces to support people who lost their baby during pregnancy or at the moment of birth, so that through medical and psychological support They can say goodbye to them healthily and face grief healthily.
After the State Government in 2023 became the second state at the national level to have a Butterfly Roomthis 2024, they inaugurated their second room, for the benefit of the potosina mothersbut also from people who come from other states of the Republic.
The purpose of these rooms is to ensure that medical staff do not re-victimize mothers who are going through a period of mourning, but rather to provide healthy support, which is part of the Mariposa Code, actions and interventions that are carried out on patients who have suffered a perinatal loss.
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The first one was inaugurated on August 24, 2023, three months after its planning in the Central Hospital of San Luis Potosí “Ignacio Morones Prieto”in a section of the Gynecology and Obstetrics area, which has psychological, social service and gynecological care during the recovery process inside and outside the hospital.
The Central Hospital of San Luis Potosí is located on Venustiano Carranza Avenue without number in front of the González Bocanegra roundabout. Currently, only patients are treated whose loss occurred in patients treated within the hospital.
The second Mariposa Room was inaugurated on June 26, 2024 in the Hospital for Children and Women “Dr. Alberto López Hermosa”which will greatly expand the care provided to pregnant women who are grieving a loss, guaranteeing physical, psychological and emotional well-being for women and their families following a gestational, perinatal or neonatal death.
The hospital is located at Antonio Rocha Cordero Boulevard 2510 in the San Juan de Guadalupe neighborhood, in the capital of San Luis Potosí.
