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GPHC maternal death…Findings to be made public – Health Minister
The findings of the recent maternal death at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will be revealed to the public as part of a legislative mandate.
This is according to Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, who revealed yesterday that he has been in contact with Secretary to the Expert Committee charged with reviewing the findings and making relevant recommendations.
Dead: Luan Rodney
According to a statement issued by the GPHC, a completed report into the death of Luan Rodney has been sent to the Ministry of Health, which is expected to take necessary action. The report has since gained the attention of the Office of the Chief Medical Officer and the Cabinet-appointed Expert Committee which will review all documents and make relevant recommendations within a specified time.
According to the Minister, he has been told that the Expert Committee is currently adding the final touches to its report into the incident and a copy will soon be gaining his attention.
He noted that the investigations are being done according to the law and following such undertakings the findings will be made public as is recommended by law.
But although an investigation and a resulting report have been completed, the dead woman’s husband, Nigel Rodney, is yet to get an update from officials at the hospital.
He disclosed yesterday that hospital officials had assured him that they would update him about the circumstances.
“I was waiting on these people all the time for some word…but they are doing just what I expected…But I don’t intend this to just vanish into thin air,” the man said during an interview with this publication. Post mortem examinations into his wife and baby’s death were inconclusive, but Nigel Rodney said that a Cuban Pathologist told him last week that further answers should be available within 10 days.
“All I want is closure…All I want is for them to tell me plainly is what really went wrong to leave me without my wife and baby today.” The still distraught man, who buried his wife and baby daughter in a single casket on Monday, said that he is currently “taking things one day at a time”. He added too that he does not think he would have made it had he not been a church-going man.
Rodney’s wife of six years, died in the maternity section of the hospital last week Tuesday. She was admitted one day earlier to deliver her second child. However, there are reports that negligence was a major contributory factor to her demise since it is alleged that she was not closely monitored despite being administered a pill to induce labour.
Luan Rodney reportedly suffered a ruptured uterus and there are reports that the baby was too big to be delivered naturally.
A patient occupying a bed close to the now dead woman revealed that although she alerted a nurse to the woman’s developing situation on at least two occasions, the nurse on duty did not take action until she was told that the woman was bleeding.
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