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Teen’s relatives deny seeking $4M settlement for abortion death

Jan 10, 2012 News

 

–    physician gives cops statement, police to seek legal advice

Police have received a statement from the physician implicated in the death of 18-year-old Karen Bahdal following an illegal abortion.
A police official disclosed that the physician has submitted a statement to investigators through his attorney.
“The doctor submitted a statement through his lawyer. We are putting up a report on the matter and we will send it for legal advice.”
The development comes even as Bahdal’s reputed husband, Vishal Surujpaul, and his mother refuted reports that they are seeking a financial settlement over Bahdal’s death.
According to the reports, the family was approached a few days ago with the suggestion that they come to a financial agreement. The figure of $4M was reportedly raised, but the individual who approached the relatives claimed that this was excessive.
However, Surujpaul told Kaieteur News that neither the Physician nor Health officials have contacted them on the matter.
Meanwhile, an aunt of Bahdal’s has contacted the Medical Council of Guyana to have the Council investigate her death.
A Medical Council official confirmed yesterday that the aunt contacted the Council by telephone.
Before the matter can be investigated, the teen’s relatives would have to give the Council a written complaint. The Council would then write to the physician and request his response to the complaint.
Bahdal was reportedly four months pregnant when she had her abortion on December 23 in a bottom flat where the doctor ran a clinic.
She was admitted to the GPHC on December 24 after she began vomiting continuously and complaining of abdominal pains.
An ultrasound revealed that there was fluid in her stomach. Bahdal was then taken to the hospital’s operating theatre where staff observed that both her uterus and bowel were perforated. She underwent surgery to repair the damage, but by then, fluids from her bowels had already leaked into her stomach, and peritonitis had developed.
The teen’s condition worsened and she was taken to the Intensive Care Unit and placed on a ventilator but eventually succumbed.
A post mortem revealed that death was due to a perforated uterus and acute peritonitis.
Bahdal is survived by two children aged two years and four months respectively.
The physician who performed the abortion on Bahdal holds a prominent post at a private hospital, besides running his East Coast clinic. Health officials have confirmed that he was once licenced to perform medical terminations, but has not been licenced in some four years.
In addition, he was never licenced to perform abortions at the Mon Repos flat where the procedure was done on Bahdal.
Hardai Ramroop, an aunt of the dead teen, alleged that the ‘clinic’ was “like a kitchen” and that a receptionist, rather than a nurse, assisted the physician. The physician has also closed his clinic and removed a sign that hung there.
He reportedly refunded the $8,000 he had received after learning that Bahdal was seriously ill.
During a brief interview shortly after Bahdal’s death, the doctor denied performing the abortion or having a clinic at Mon Repos. Since then, he has refused to speak with Kaieteur News.

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