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Man prepares to bury wife two days after baby daughter’s birth
By Michael Jordan
Just two days ago, Dennis Stoll and his reputed wife Kendeka were at the Suddie Hospital, happily preparing to welcome a baby daughter into their small family.
Yesterday, Stoll was in the Bethany village burial ground preparing a tomb for his wife.
Kendeka Abrams, 24, of Bethany Mission, Essequibo Coast, died in the Suddie Hospital’s operating theatre last Friday, after suffering severe haemorrhaging while delivering a full-term baby girl.
Health officials are reportedly to investigate allegations that nursing staff at the Bethany Missionary, who referred Abrams to the Suddie Hospital, failed to indicate on the woman’s chart that she was a high-risk patient. Abrams, a mother of two, had bled heavily during her previous deliveries.
DEAD: Kendeka Abrams
Other complaints are that Abrams had told the lone nursing staff who was present during her delivery, of her history of postpartum haemorrhage; that the hospital had inadequate supplies of blood, and that the allegedly ill-prepared Suddie staff should referred Abrams to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Kaieteur News understands that Abrams was taken to the Suddie Hospital at around 09:00 hrs on Thursday, November 29. That was some nine miles by boat and taxi from her home.
According to reports, only a midwife attended to her. She allegedly informed the midwife of her history of heavy bleeding.
Dennis Stoll recalled later waiting outside the delivery room at around 17:50 hrs and hearing his wife’s screams, and shortly after, the cries of her newborn.
The family’s newborn
“I ask (the nurse) if anything wrong and she said ‘no, just a little bleeding,’” Stoll said.
On being reassured that his spouse was in no danger, Stoll, who was at the hospital with his mother, suggested that they go home and return the next day.
“I said ‘let us go home, nurse say she alright.’”
This they did, but he said that at around 20:00 hrs, he received a call from someone who said that his wife was now in the operating theatre.
What had reportedly occurred was that, as with the previous pregnancies, Abrams was again experiencing postpartum haemorrhaging. She was reportedly given three units of blood, but the hospital allegedly lacked an adequate supply of blood.
After her condition worsened, she was rushed to the operating theatre, where she reportedly underwent a postpartum hysterectomy (surgery to remove the uterus following heavy bleeding).
Dennis Stoll and Kendeka Abrams
Stoll returned to the hospital, but did not get to see his wife. He said that at around midnight on Friday, a senior medical official, whom he identified, “told me my wife gone from bad to worse and I should pray.”
“At around five o’clock, I was going to the ward where they had her first, and before I could reach, a doctor looked at me and said that my wife passed away at around ten past four.”
A senior hospital official indicated that an investigation is likely to commence today, but declined further comment.
Meanwhile, the baby girl is healthy and has been released from hospital. The couple has a six-year-old daughter and a son, who is almost three.
Yesterday, Stoll and other relatives were engaged in the grim task of building his reputed wife’s tomb.
“I am frustrated, knowing I lost my spouse. I am thinking of how my children have they lost their mother. I don’t know what my next move will be.”
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