Health officials probe death of eight - year-old West Dem Hospital patient

Health officials probe death of eight – year-old West Dem Hospital patient

Jul 20, 2018 News

Health officials have launched an investigation into the death of an eight-year-old boy who was being treated at the West Demerara Regional Hospital for a suspected urinary tract infection.
Rohit Eshack, of Belle West, West Bank Demerara, was pronounced dead on arrival at the institution after midnight last Sunday, shortly after telling his grandparents that he was “feeling hot” and was “not seeing.”
The child was being treated for a suspected urinary tract infection and was also given Gravol for vomiting.
His grandmother, Joan Sudarsan, said that he was also taking an antibiotic.
She alleged that his condition had worsened suddenly when she gave him the antibiotic and “a piece of Panadol.”
Mrs. Sudarsan told Kaieteur News that she first took her grandson to the West Demerara Regional Hospital last week Tuesday, a day after he complained of stomach pains.
She said that she arrived at the hospital at around 10.30 hrs and several hours passed without her grandson being seen by a doctor.
She alleged that around 15.00 hrs, the doctors indicated that they had finished working for the day. She eventually left around 17.00 hrs.
On arriving home, the grandmother said she gave the child “a piece of Panadol” and “he felt okay for the rest of week.”
However, last week Friday, he complained once again of stomach pains and vomited twice that night.
The following day, she took him back to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where a female physician gave him an injection.
He also underwent some tests and the same doctor informed the grandmother that the child had a urinary tract infection.
Mrs. Sudarsan said the physician gave her antibiotics for her grandson’s infection and told her to return on Monday so that an ultrasound test could be done.
Mrs. Sudarsan said that when he returned home, her grandson was “playing normal”, but at around 21.00 hrs, he again complained that his “belly hurt.”
The woman said she gave him the medication that she had collected from the hospital, along with “a piece of Panadol.”
But then the child began to perspire and complained of feeling hot. She gave him a bath and left him with his grandfather, who placed him near a fan.
“Then he say ‘grandpa, meh nah see” and I take him to the hospital and two doctors pronounced him dead” (after midnight),” the woman said.
“I tell them meh baby can’t be dead; he left home alive.”
A postmortem was conducted last Monday.
However, she said that no one at the hospital gave her any explanation about the possible cause for her grandson’s sudden death.
A Ministry of Public Health official told Kaieteur News that doctors who treated Rohit Eshack stated that the child was taken to the hospital with facial and abdominal swelling.
The Health official was told that the patient’s vital signs were normal, and he was diagnosed with a “suspected urinal tract infection.”
Rohit Eshack was given Gravol, which was said to be adequate for the child. His vital signs were reportedly normal when he left, and relatives were reportedly advised to bring the child back if his condition worsened. The relatives returned the following day and the child was pronounced dead on arrival.
The doctors were reportedly unable to provide the health official spearheading the investigation with the postmortem results, since a copy of the pathologist’s findings was not at the hospital.

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