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Deborah Crawford’s family still awaiting justice

Oct 19, 2009 News

Six years after she bled to death during a botched delivery, the family of maternal patient Deborah Crawford is still seeking justice in a lawsuit they have filed against a New Amsterdam doctor who was implicated in her demise.

Crawford, 38, of Corriverton, Corentyne, suffered massive hemorrhaging on October 13, 2003 at the New Amsterdam Hospital, while delivering a full-term baby boy. The child also died.

Investigations found that she bled to death when a doctor attempted to have the baby, which was larger than usual, delivered normally.

In a complaint filed to the Guyana Medical Council, Crawford’s mother, Mariam Crawford, said that her daughter developed a diabetic condition during pregnancy and was being treated with insulin.

At the time, she was attending the High Risk Clinic at the New Amsterdam Hospital as well as the Skeldon Estate Clinic.

She said that because of the patient’s condition, a medic advised that her delivery be done by Caesarean section, since the diabetic condition would cause the baby to be larger than normal.

It is alleged that although this information was documented on Crawford’s clinic card, the gynecologist ignored this advice and induced labour.

During the delivery, Crawford suffered massive hemorrhaging and her uterus was also removed.

Following an investigation, the Guyana Medical Council, headed then by the now-deceased Dr. M. Y Bacchus, found that the accused physician had committed “gross professional misconduct”.

He was subsequently struck off the Register of Medical Practitioners.

However, the accused doctor took the Guyana Medical Council to court. He alleged that he was never notified of the allegation, or of the independent review the Council had taken to arrive at its decision.

The High Court subsequently ordered that the doctor be reinstated.

In September, 2006, Mrs. Mariam Crawford filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General and the physician. But that case is still to be heard.

“The family is asking for an earlier date for the case so that we can have closure,” Mrs. Crawford told Kaieteur News yesterday.

She explained that her daughter, who is survived by two young daughters, was attempting to secure finances to build a home for her children when she passed away.

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