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Family blames GPHC for baby’s death

Sep 10, 2017 News

…mother believes infant was overdosed with antibiotics

The sudden death of one month old Hailey Henry has brought the Georgetown Public Hospital [GPHC] into the spotlights once again. Parents of‘ the deceased infant, Marlon Henry and Michelle Gonsalves, are still baffled as the Infant’s cause of death still remains vague. Though the infant endured complications during pregnancy, sudden death following more than a month of “recovery” seems questionable.
The young couple of Lot 224 Richmond, Essequibo Coast, is struck emotionally as they continue to mourn the death of their first born whose life ended on September 3, 2017. Mother of the deceased, Michelle, told this publication that her daughter, Hailey, developed a swollen stomach during pregnancy.
Michelle believes however that her baby daughter suffered and died, as a result of negligence on the part of the GPHC. She believes that in addition to an overdose of antibiotics, her daughter may have also starved to death.
Michelle further explained, “After they ruptured my water sack, some three hours later a doctor said the baby heart stopped beating and she died in me.”
The woman said she later delivered the baby, but to her surprise to declared dead child was alive. “They took the baby out and the baby start crying and they say they carrying the baby to the maternity ward. The doctor came later and he said that the baby ain’t messing but I gotta express breast milk because the baby tummy was swollen.
“The Tuesday they took her for surgery, and she start showing signs of recovery cause she start move and so when she went on the machine. Then later they put her on oxygen. After I expressed the breast milk for a seven-day period she started passing stools.”
Little did the family know that Hailey’s complications were far from over, as just seven days after surgery, another disaster surfaced.
Michelle added, “Shortly like after a day we gone back they said they stop feeding her because some green fluids coming up back from her. So they removed the line from her hands because they say maybe that’s what caused the infection.
“So the doctors said they gonna put a tube on her big vein. Nobody told me that finding this big vein involved cutting, cause when we showed up at the parlor only then we discovered a long tube running through the right side of her body.”
The family also believes that a daily increase in the dosage of antibiotics may have somehow contributed to the infant’s medical relapse. “Every day we go them always changing antibiotics. When we asked what the infection is, they said they don’t know, so like they don’t know what they were treating her for; they just trying out to see which antibiotic would work.”
The Henry family also expressed their dissatisfaction as they were not promptly informed of the baby’s death. “The baby died since 4 am or so. When I showed up at the hospital there in the morning I waiting, but nobody telling me anything, nobody even called me,” said Michelle.

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