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Woman paralysed after unknown injection at West Dem Hospital
A 44-year-old woman who was admitted to the West Demerara Regional Hospital because her blood pressure was a little high, has regretted she ever stepped into the institution.
Wendy Patterson, of Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, who was six months’ pregnant at the time she was admitted at the facility, lost her child and she is now paralysed in her left foot.
Wendy Patterson
Yesterday, when Kaieteur News visited the woman at the hospital, in pain, she revealed her sorrow and disappointment in the nurses and doctors at the health institute.
Patterson said that after she found out she was pregnant for the fourth time, she joined the clinic. Last month, during one of her routine visits “they told me that my pressure was high and they keep me in the ward.”
She said while in the ward, she observed that she had passed a little blood so she informed a nurse, who then gave her an injection without consulting any doctors.
According to the 44-year-old woman, three days after she was discharged from the facility, she started to experience severe pains in her left hip, straight down to her leg.
“After it paining me so bad, I go back at the hospital and they admit me again,” the highly upset woman claimed.
Patterson added that they had her in the ward for almost two weeks. “On Tuesday (October, 9) they took me to GPHC to do an ultra sound and the result showed that everything was ok with the child.”
She claimed that two Wednesdays ago, a doctor told her that he will have “to induce labour” in order to save her life.
The woman was given tablets and she “passed out” the fetus. She was discharged from the institute two Thursdays ago.
She is now questioning the reason as to how her life would have been threatened if she had continued with the pregnancy.
“I don’t know anything; I don’t know how the baby would have affected my life. I was in here because my pressure was high so I don’t know what’s going on,” the woman claimed.
She said that before she was discharged from the facility on Thursday last (for the second time) she questioned a nurse about the injection she was given.
“The nurse went through my chart and she didn’t see any injection written down on the chart so I don’t know what is going on.”
Yesterday, the woman was devastated as she sat in front of the hospital’s canteen awaiting her husband to lift her and take her to the Physiotherapy Department.
“I can’t walk, I cant do anything,” Patterson lamented.
Calls to the hospital’s administrator were futile.
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