驚人！美國一植物人分娩，寶寶還很健康

Police in the US state of Arizona have launched a sexual assault investigation amid reports a patient in a vegetative state for a decade gave birth.

據報道，美國亞利桑那州一名進入植物狀態(tài)十年的病人進行了分娩，警察正在就此開展性侵犯調查。

The woman is a patient in a clinic run by Hacienda HealthCare near Phoenix.

該女子是鳳凰城附近“Hacienda”健康中心所經營的一家診所的病人。

Hacienda HealthCare gave no details but said it was aware of a "deeply disturbing incident".

“Hacienda”健康中心沒有提供任何細節(jié)，但表示這是“一起非常令人不安的事件”。

A local CBS station said the baby was healthy and quoted a source as saying that staff had been unaware the woman was pregnant.

當地哥倫比亞廣播公司電臺稱，嬰兒很健康，并引用一位消息人士的話說，工作人員并未意識到這名女子懷孕。

The woman has not been identified.

這名婦女身份尚未確定。

A Phoenix police spokesman said that "the matter is currently under investigation" but declined to say when the inquiry had started or to give any details of the case.

鳳凰城警方發(fā)言人表示，“目前正在調查此事”，但拒絕透露調查是何時開始的，也沒有提供關于該案件的任何細節(jié)。

The CBS Phoenix affiliate KPHO-TV said the woman had given birth on 29 December.

哥倫比亞廣播公司鳳凰衛(wèi)視的子公司KPHO-TV稱，該女子于12月29日分娩。

It quoted a source as saying: "None of the staff were aware that she was pregnant until she was pretty much giving birth."

報道引用一位消息人士的話說：“直到她幾乎分娩前，沒有一個工作人員知道她已經懷孕。”

The source said the woman required round-the-clock care and many people had access to her room.

消息人士說，這位女士需要全天候照顧，所以很多人都可以進入她的房間。