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Dec 03, 2015 News
The father of Evita Singh, a young mother who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital last September with her unborn child, is calling on the Public Health Ministry to give answers to the circumstances surrounding her death.
Singh, 34, died at the hospital after doctors induced labour, allegedly using Cytotec tablets. She was admitted to the hospital after she started exhibiting signs of Chikungunya.
Her family questioned the doctors’ decision to induce labour because her clinic card had instructed that she have a C-section. It was alleged that the doctors inserted the tablets over a two-day period to induce labour. The family also chided the hospital for being negligent; the members alleged that Singh had to wait a while before she could be operated on, despite bleeding copiously.
“I believe that the hospital and the Ministry of Public Health have pushed this matter aside because it has been more than a year and we still haven’t heard anything from either of the organizations,” Singh’s father, Dennis Ramjit, told Kaieteur News.
He said that the Ministry needs to stop dragging its feet on the matter and to start giving some answers. “Look how long they reviewing the file! No one has called us to say she (probably) died because of this and this is what is going to happen,” he said.
An autopsy report had revealed that Singh died of a ruptured uterus. A preliminary report on the maternal death had indicated that Singh succumbed because of a disseminated intravascular coagulation— a rare condition that avoids blood from clotting normally.
“A lot of women dying at that hospital and all we hear is that the Ministry is investigating the matter but never any results. But it’s my daughter and I feeling it for my family and her two children.”
He said the former Health Minister Bheri Ramsaran had made promises to meet with him concerning the issue but he had never called to confirm a date. “Now when I want to speak with this new Minister I was told that he is a hard man to reach,” Ramjit said.
He stated that maternal death is “something like murder” and that it should not be taken lightly. He indicated that doctors and nurses should be fired for maternal deaths that could have been prevented.
“It’s their carelessness… people family shouldn’t have to suffer because they don’t know how to do their work,” he chided.
In the last year, maternal deaths have been escalating at the Georgetown Public Hospital. Currently, Guyana is among five countries in the Caribbean and the Americas with the highest rates of maternal deaths.
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