Couple pleads for probe into death of newborn

Mar 04, 2019 News

A young couple from Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice is grieving the death of their full term new born baby, while seeking an investigation into the child’s demise.
The baby, born with close to seven pounds on Friday at around 9:30 hrs at the New Amsterdam Hospital did not survive the delivery.
The 21-year-old father, Nandram Gopaul, said that it has been difficult for him and his wife since there were no complications during the nine months prior to the delivery.

The New Amsterdam hospital

He told Kaieteur News that his wife, 18-year-old Sheliza Gopaul, was experiencing labour pains sometime around 01:00 hrs on Friday, “after she start getting the hot pain I take her to the hospital and I reach there at six, but by then the pain get more hot”. He stated that the doctor checked her and was told that she was not ready to deliver. It was between 06:00 hrs and 9:00 hrs that the young mother reportedly dilated quickly and was screaming out in pain to inform the doctors that she was ready to give birth.
However, she was reportedly told “you ain’t getting the right kind of pain, you ain’t ready”.
But it is alleged that shortly after, the woman felt her baby’s head beginning to protrude and the doctor immediately rushed her to the delivery room. She gave birth at 9:30 hrs that day but the baby was experiencing difficulties, the father told this publication.
“When the baby come out dem tell she how the baby mess up (defecate) in she and the baby swallow it and dem had to pump it out.” He detailed that the medical professionals who attended to his wife in the delivery room, including a doctor, stated that the feces went into the infant’s lungs “but dem say they try and could not do anything because the baby take long to deliver.” The man said that the doctor reportedly admitted that the baby should have been delivered earlier.
He added that when his wife was indicating to the nurses that she was ready to give birth they paid her no mind, “she tell dem that she got another child and she know that she ready, but these people didn’t listen to my wife. Now I can’t even hold my baby.”
The grieving father stated that his wife is still in shock and has been crying nonstop. He is calling for an investigation to be launched.
A post mortem is expected to be done on the baby on Monday.

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