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Teacher died after seeking surgery for a tumour
After appealing to the public and relevant authorities for assistance to undergo surgery for a tumour in her head, last week, Natasha Moore, 31, of Section ‘D’, South Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, died on Friday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
According to Donna Moore, the mother of the dead teacher, her daughter, who is a mother of two, became seriously ill five months ago and became a patient at the Neurosurgical Clinic of the GPHC. However, after she had a consultation with Professor, Ivor Crandon, who recommended urgent surgical treatment overseas, preferably at the Centre Specialised for Skull Base Surgery, she publicly sought assistance for her daughter’s surgery. It was too late.
Natasha Moore
She said that her daughter was a teacher who had a bright future. Natasha was upgrading her qualifications and “November she would have gotten her results from UG…She used to collapse in school (Redeemers Lutheran Nursery) with this thing and only when she did a test she realise it was a tumour. I left my job to care for her.”
Natasha Moore was diagnosed with a large Petrous-Posterior Fossa-Cervical Meningioma, after a CT scan was done on June 23, last, and it revealed that there was a problem inside her head that affected her brain, and other body functions.
The grieving mother disclosed that her daughter was presented to the Neurosurgical clinic with a history of severe headaches aggravated by coughing which started in 2008. This was followed in 2009 by decreased vision, slurred speech and two episodes of loss of consciousness.
Recently, she started having bilateral limb weakness associated with unsteady steps, her mother said.
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