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Newborn falls on Labour room floor at GPHC

Jul 03, 2011 News

Apparently the horrors maternity patients experience at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will not cease, despite constant complaints and negative publicity.
A 17-year-old mother, Bibi Khan, is worried that her baby boy, who was born on Thursday last, may have physical or mental complications later in life, as he fell onto the floor of the facility’s labour room during delivery.
Khan, a resident of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, recalled that when she arrived at the facility about 3:10 am Thursday, she was already in labour and her husband was with her. He was not allowed in the room and she was left alone with the nurses to whom she related her situation.
Khan recounted that she was made to walk to the bed although experiencing agonizing pain and the baby was crowning. Before she could have made it to the bed her baby fell out of her onto the floor.
Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, stated that GPHC informed him that the mother was taken up to the labour room. She delivered rapidly before she got to the labour room and she and her baby were taken care of. They both were well and there were no complications.
Mothers delivering babies before getting to the labour room is not unknown, he said.
However, the questions remain as to how many similar mishaps transpire in the labour room and the frequency with which they occur.
Khan noted that the nurses are blaming her for the mishap, claiming that she should not have pushed the baby out. The teenage mom and baby were released yesterday from the facility and the nurses assured her that the baby is healthy.
Khan is of the belief that half the misery she and her baby went through could have been avoided if the doctor at Diamond Diagnostic Hospital, East Bank Demerara had examined her properly when she went to the facility Wednesday evening, in pain.
Instead of examining the then pregnant woman to determine if she was dilating the doctor only looked at her abdomen and concluded that Khan was experiencing turning pain. Khan was given some pain killers and sent home with the assurance that she was not in labour.
However after the pain and contractions intensified coupled with the passage of bodily fluids, she was rushed to GPHC because it was clear that the doctor at the Diamond health facility was unaware of maternal matters.
This year, two pregnant teens, and a 23-year-old who had taken Cytotec two months into her pregnancy, died within 32 days at GPHC. Medical reports obtained by Kaieteur News showed that the three deaths occurred between February 22 and March 26.
The reports identified the patients as Preya Gafoor, 17; Joanne Peters, also 17, and 23-year-old Jasodra Khamoo.

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