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Reports on two maternal deaths due within seven days- Ramsammy

Aug 07, 2011 News

Preliminary Reports on the two recent maternal deaths are expected to be completed next week.
This was according to Minister of Health Leslie Ramsammy.
Jasoda Lloyd, a 26-year-old housewife from Wakenaam, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) one week after delivering a stillborn.
Relatives of Nadira Charles, 27, of Moruka Village have blamed the negligence of the nurses, medex and doctor at the Kumaka/ Moruca Hospital for the death of the woman and her unborn child.
Yesterday the Minister of Health told Kaieteur News that the reports are presently with the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Shamdeo Persaud. The reports are usually compiled after any maternal death, to see if there was error in judgement by health officials.
Ramsammy said that he anticipates that the reports would be completed within the next seven days.
It was reported that Lloyd, was expecting to have her baby on September 25.
However, there were signs that all was not well as the woman’s feet were swelling regularly and her blood pressure was quite often increasing.
The woman’s husband said that on July 27, she began to experience pain and felt the baby moving.
He said she asked him for water but by the time she drank it, she vomited, collapsed and went into a fit.  The husband then rushed the semi-conscious woman to the Wakenaam Cottage Hospital.
At the hospital, relatives said, there were no doctors or midwife on duty. The medex on call, after examining the woman, referred the patient to the GPHC.
A speedboat was chartered to take the patient to Parika. The medex accompanied the patient as far as Parika as no other medical personnel was available at the time.
It is reported that when she arrived at the GPHC Lloyd was immediately placed in surgery to remove the child as both lives of mother and baby were threatened.
The baby was delivered stillborn and the mother was hooked up to a life support machine.
The woman eventually succumbed.
Almost two weeks ago Janet Ganesh, the mother of Nadira Charles, 27, had told this newspaper that she took her daughter, who was seven months pregnant, to the hospital on July 3, after the girl began experiencing a slight bout of diarrhea.
Kaieteur News was told that upon Charles’s arrival at the hospital, the medex who was on duty gave her an injection along with two tablets. The woman was also given intravenous drips by the medex.
It was around 04:15hrs on July 4, that the pregnant woman began experiencing abdominal pains. Ganesh said that at 07:00hrs that same day her daughter started having the abdominal pains again.
The woman said that again her daughter was given an injection along with two tablets by the nurse who went away without even checking the woman’s vital signs.
Kaieteur News was told that Charles began experiencing more pains, but none of the staffers came to the woman’s assistance.
According to the mother, about 30 minutes after her daughter began experiencing the pains, a third nurse came into the room and administered a third dose of medication.
The woman was given three sets of medication by three different persons at the hospital. Kaieteur News was told that none of the staffers even checked Charles’s vital signs before administering the medication.
The mother further told Kaieteur News that after her daughter was given the third dose of the medication, she noticed something strange.
Ganesh said she observed her daughter’s features beginning to change.
Afterwards the woman said a nurse finally came into the room and she enquired about what was happening with her daughter.
Without even checking the woman’s vital signs, the mother said, the nurse announced that Charles was suffering from a low blood count.
Seconds later, the doctors instructed that the woman be transferred to the Suddie Hospital for further medical treatment.
The woman was accompanied by her mother, husband and a lone health care officer, who according to relatives, offered little assistance.
Ganesh said that it was while at the Moruca Stelling, her daughter suffered from a “fit” and collapsed while she was being placed in the boat.
At the Suddie Hospital doctors pronounced her dead on arrival.

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