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GPHC maternal death blamed on negligence

Oct 12, 2008 News

Maureen France, a 21-year-old patient at the Guyana Public Hospital Corporation, died on Tuesday whilst attempting to deliver her child.
Her family is claiming that when Ms France delivered her previous child, some two years ago, she was diagnosed as needing a Caesarean Section (C – Section), because of some complication she had experienced.
When she went to the GPHC, staffers there claimed that she was fit to deliver the child vaginally.
While she was giving birth, it turned out that the child was too large and internal rupturing ensued. At this point, France was apparently left in the Operating Theatre, where she bled to death due to the injuries she had sustained while attempting to deliver the child, the relatives said.
France’s family is claiming that the hospital staffers were negligent, and their negligence is what caused the woman’s death.
“She was a CS (C-Section) case from before,” her father, Godfrey France, said. “She supposed to be a CS case again!”
Agreeing with the charges of negligence, France’s mother, Marlyn France, has said that she told the nurses that her daughter was a CS case. She said that she had even tried to tell the doctor, but was unable to as he walked right into the theatre without giving her a hearing.  
According to France’s mother, when she took her daughter to the GPHC on Monday night, she told the nurses that her daughter had a C-Section before. At this point, the mother said, nurses asked a flurry of questions. They wanted to know why the doctor cut her before, the woman said.
She said that when she tried to respond, one of the nurses asked her (mother) if her daughter was unable to speak for herself.
Leaving her daughter in the care of the GPHC, France’s mother left with one request of the nurses: “Take care of my daughter.”
It was not until she returned to the GPHC on Tuesday that she learnt that her daughter was in a critical condition, and that her baby had died during childbirth.
The mother said that she was told that the afterbirth had separated from the baby before it was born.
“This thing gotta stop!” said the upset mother, “Today is my daughter, tomorrow whose child it gon be!?”
She added that the staffers at the GPHC had adopted a very uncooperative attitude.
She added that she saw the corpse of the dead baby and noted that it was exceptionally large, further cementing her belief that a C – Section was necessary for her daughter.
When contacted, the Chief Executive Officer of the GPHC, Michael Khan, told this newspaper that as it was the weekend, no one would be available to furnish a comment.
However, Godfrey France explained that when he had spoken with Khan earlier in the week, he was told that an investigation was being launched into his daughter’s death.
He added that he would return to the GPHC tomorrow to continue to enquire into the cause of his daughter’s death.

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