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Eight weeks later…Relatives demand answers for mom, baby deaths
Relatives of the 33-year-old mother and her baby, who died hours apart after a cesarean section was
Dead: Liloutie Ramlall
done at a private hospital, are demanding answers as it relates to their demise.
Eight weeks have passed and the relatives of Liloutie Ramlall are claiming that officials from the Ministry of Public Health and the Davis Memorial Hospital have failed to make contact with them.
On October 21, last, Ramlall died while delivering her first baby at the private hospital. Her infant son did not survive. He died a few hours later at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Post mortem examinations performed on both bodies revealed that Ramlall died from Hypovolemic shock and rupture of the spleen due to a Caesarean section.
The baby died from neonatal respiratory distress.
What is unclear is how the woman’s spleen got ruptured while undergoing surgery.
“We want to know what really happened. We want an explanation as to how she died,” the woman’s sister, Parbattie Ramlall told this newspaper.
Public Health Minister, Dr. George Norton could not be reached for a comment yesterday, but he had explained that there is a routine for all maternal death investigations. He said that the hospitals in question would usually do their investigations first, after which the findings would be passed to an expert committee.
Dr. Norton added that the expert committee, which is made up of specialists, would then view the hospitals’ findings and then they would do detailed investigations.
According to the Minister, the hospitals would usually take a week to do their investigations and the expert committee would take two weeks. The findings would then be related to him.
“The reason why this case took so long is because a doctor who is a part of the committee was not in the country. They had to wait on him to conduct the investigation,” Norton stated.
The report from the expert committee should be available by now.
The woman’s sister explained that the doctor had told relatives that the baby was delivered from a ruptured placenta.
“He (the doctor) said that when he cut Liloutie (a bikini incision), he found a pool of blood. He said that he didn’t know where it was coming from, but it wasn’t coming from below (the lower abdomen).”
She added that the medical practitioner further related that he managed to “get out” the baby and sutured her wound, but the bleeding still did not stop.
“He said that they gave her four pints of blood and then they cut from her chest right down to her upper abdomen to see where the bleeding was coming from,” Ramlall explained. She added that the doctor then told them that her sister was bleeding from her spleen.
The sister further revealed that her sister’s spleen was removed and she later suffered a cardiac arrest.
Liloutie Ramlall died at the Davis Memorial Hospital at 18:45 hrs on October 21. Her son succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation a little after 09:00 hrs the following day.
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