Four months later… No words on Liloutie Ramlall’s case

Feb 04, 2016 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

Despite the Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton’s, assurance two months ago that

Dead: Liloutie Ramlall

relatives of Liloutie Ramlall will get justice after the woman and baby died hours apart, this is yet to be done.
In fact, when the first time mother and baby died, the Health Minister said that this case will not be like the other maternal deaths where relatives have to fight to get justice and answers.
Today, four months and 15 days later, no one from the Ministry of Public Health has contacted Ramlall’s relatives despite their pleas for answers.
Last November, Dr. Norton said that the case was still being investigated by the expert committee. He had explained that the hospital in question would usually take a month to do its investigation after which it is passed to the expert committee.
According to the Public Health Minister, 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 had said.
While he said that the report from the expert committee was supposed to be available in two weeks, no further information was revealed. This has Ramlall’s relatives wondering whether there is some sort of cover-up.
Ramlall died while delivering her first baby at a 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.
“We want to know what really happened. We want an explanation as to how she died because she went into the theatre normal and healthy,” the woman’s sister, Parbattie Ramlall told this newspaper.
“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.
The Minister could not be reached for a comment yesterday.

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