This means that someone – a husband or mother-in-law – had taken the decision not to send the young woman to the hospital, instead keeping her in inhuman suffering for nearly a week.
Esto significa que alguien –un marido o una suegra- habían tomado la decisión de no enviar a la joven mujer al hospital y, en cambio, someterla a un sufrimiento inhumano durante casi una semana.