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Explanation of teenager’s death at WDRH, “very strange”

Jan 25, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
As I was reading this newspaper the caption caught my eye. It is strange that the nurse who was administering drugs in the ward on that fateful day was seen by the child’s mother and was spoken to because it was after visiting time when she arrived  for her midday visit to her son, who was admitted for a simple puncture wound.
She was given permission by the nurse to take his lunch to him, not knowing it would have been the last time both of them would interact with each other. Based on my understanding, I strongly feel that it was not any suspension in the syringe, but injection fluid. It has to be strange for someone to tell me I don’t have a cup so I am going to put your medication (liquid) in a syringe, when I am not on oral but injectable (intravenous).
It shows here that the nurse is unprofessional doing things her lazy way. How could she gave a wrong medication to a child and turn her back?
When the G.M.O arrived they were only fooling the relatives who rushed in immediately after the doctor, they were trying to resuscitate a dead child.
The minister should send home the matron and her seniors because they are responsible for not putting little things in place. The nursing association should have the nurse’s licence revoked if she is a qualified nurse because that institution has a lot of nurse aides working in place of qualified nurses.
I feel the nurse needs to face the court and set example to others. There is a lot of malpractice at the hospital. They listen to no one. If all the deaths including maternal deaths are investigated at the institution, the jail cells that we have in Guyana cannot hold the culprits.
Justice must be served
J. Persaud

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