[1][2] In March 2000, Inés Ramírez Pérez, a Mexican woman from the state of Oaxaca, gained media attention after performing a caesarean section on herself.
At midnight, on 5 March 2000, after 12 hours of continual pain, Ramírez sat down on a bench[3] and drank three small glasses of hard liquor.
[4] Ramírez cut through her skin in a 17-centimetre (6.7 in)[3] vertical line several centimeters to the right of her navel, starting near the bottom of the ribs and ending near the pubic area.
[3] Several hours later, the village health assistant and a second man found Ramírez conscious and alert, along with her live baby.
[3] Ramírez was eventually taken to the local clinic, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) away in San Lorenzo Texmelucan, and then to the nearest hospital, eight hours away by car.