A Canadian hospital in Montreal has apologized to a woman and her husband who had no assistance in delivering a stillborn baby this month.

The Royal Victoria Hospital issued the apology Thursday after Eliza Abbaszadeh contacted media about her experience on July 5, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.

The woman said she was 15 weeks pregnant and went to the hospital with abdominal pains and learned after a three-hour wait the fetus had died, the report said.

The next day, a miscarriage began and the couple returned to the hospital. Abbaszadeh said she and her husband were left alone unattended in an emergency room.

"Nobody came, even to check us. I delivered the baby, the dead baby alone, just in the presence of my husband. And he was the one who was cleaning all the blood," she told the CBC.

Hospital spokeswoman Ann Lynch made the apology Thursday and said an investigation was under way, the report said.