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Teen’s death at Bartica Hospital… PM inconclusive

Jan 26, 2010 News

A post mortem examination performed on the remains of 18 year-old Penny King has turned out inconclusive, much to the dismay of her relatives. The PM was conducted early yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The teen’s body has since been handed over to relatives who are now left to settle for not knowing what caused her death.
The teen succumbed sometime around midnight on Friday after only being admitted a few hours.
King was admitted to the hospital after complaining of severe back pains. At the time, she was being attended to by a midwife and a ‘young nurse’.
By the time the medex was summoned and subsequently arrived at the hospital the teen was pronounced dead.
As medication was being administered to the girl, her mother Audrey King was sent by the nurse to summon the x-ray technician at his home to come down to the hospital.
The woman did make it to the technician’s home, but after calling for him for some five minutes, at minutes to midnight she got no response and was forced to walk back to the hospital without him.
As such, her daughter did not have the x-ray which the nurses had recommended. The teen’s mother also had to go to the male ward of the hospital to get the oxygen bottle herself to have it administered to her dying daughter.
It was until the following morning the doctor who throughout the ordeal was in his living quarters in the compound of the hospital, came over to the hospital to recommend a post mortem examination.
Meanwhile, this newspaper contacted Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, for a comment on the issues that were highlighted on the part of the hospital.
The Minister said he would have had to be briefed on the situation before making a comment, adding that this publication should contact him later. However, up to press time yesterday the Minister could not be reached for a comment.

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