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Baby death at N/A Hospital sparks rage

Mar 13, 2011 News

An Adelphi, East Canje woman is claiming that her newborn baby boy died as a result of negligence of doctors and nurses at the New Amsterdam Hospital. Darshanie Budhoo says that she wants to air her matter so that the negligence of some doctors at this hospital can be stopped immediately before more such deaths occur in the future.
She stated that she was ready to deliver on the morning of February 25 and was seen by one Dr Luis who told her that she would need to perform an emergency Caesarian Section, to which she agreed.
The doctor reportedly told the nurse on duty to prepare Budhoo for the operation theatre and then left her only to return some two hours later.
“He just walked out of the labour room, me na see he back until minutes to eight [o’ clock]”, she said. She said that they did an emergency scan on her baby and told her that the child’s heart rate was dropping.
The nurses then told her that she needed to take oxygen in order for the child to survive. During this time, she had not seen the doctor again.
Subsequently, the operation was done. It lasted 45 minutes. Upon regaining consciousness, Budhoo stated that she enquired about her baby and was told by the nurses that he was in a critical condition.
They told her, too, that the child was in the incubator. Meanwhile, shortly after 12:00 hrs that same day, Budhoo said that a young female doctor, Dr Ramnarine, came and told her that “the baby was no more” and that he had a heart failure.
Budhoo then opted to take the child home for burial. The girl’s family, including her sister, observed several ‘black- and- blue’ marks and swelling on the baby’s right arm and left foot.
They are questioning how heart failure can result in these features and marks on the baby’s body.
The woman stated that she believes her baby would have survived if the doctor had performed the delivery more expeditiously than leaving her for over two hours in the hospital theatre.
The relatives are peeved about the entire situation and blame the death of the baby on the negligence of the medical authorities.
“You can’t bring trainee doctors to deal with those situations. He [the doctor] leave the girl and gone home,” they said.
The doctors’ quarters are located opposite the N/A Hospital.
Budhoo said that she was shocked to hear that her baby had died, especially since it was just a few days ago that she had all the pertinent tests done at Woodlands Hospital on her baby, all of which returned positive and favourable results.
“The scan showed everything perfect; the heartbeat was ok”, she said.
“Everything was perfect at 14 weeks, then I went to do another test [at Woodlands] at 7 months,” she said.
She added that prior to the death of her baby; she had given a copy of that report from Woodlands Hospital to the nurse in the maternity ward. After losing the baby, she had asked the nurses back for the report, she was told that the doctors could not find the report.
The family is of the opinion that the health authorities have all sorts of trainee doctors working on serious cases like pregnancies in jeopardy, etc.
“That same day, them kill another baby. The baby two shoulder break and neck break. Them knew the child was too big to be delivered,” another relative said.
“When you want dead, go New Amsterdam Hospital. The mortuary and theatre dey all in one,” the woman’s sister said. Efforts to contact the Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Mrs Gloria Beharry, proved futile. (Leon Suseran)

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