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Jan 11, 2009 News
…woman forced to travel to Georgetown to give birth
The pregnant Shazeena Azeez and her family were shocked and appalled when, early yesterday morning, they were turned away from the Leonora Cottage Hospital after Shazeena Azeez had begun to experience labour pains.
At approximately 2:00 hours, when they (Azeez and her family) arrived at the hospital, they recounted, they did not notice any doctors in the hospital. They added that the security guard at the hospital told them that she (Azeez) could not give birth there.
The 19-year-old mother explained that she had been going to the clinic at the Leonora Cottage Hospital some months ago, and she had never been told that she could not give birth there.
Upon hearing this, the frustrated family took their daughter, whose labour pains had begun to get worse, to the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH). At close to 3:00 hours, Azeez was taken into the hospital, but she subsequently left after seeing the filthy state of the toilets in the WDRH.
“I couldn’t let her stay there,” said the girl’s father. “The place was filthy, and I was scared that there might be germs that could make her, or her child, sick.” He added that if the WDRH staffers could not even clean the toilets properly, it left much doubt in his mind as to the way they would treat his daughter as a patient.
However, when contacted, an official within the management of the WDRH insisted that the toilets in the WDRH were kept clean. She noted that sometimes there was no running water, and that made it impossible for toilets to be flushed.
“Some patients just don’t flush the toilets,” she added. It was also noted that sometimes female patients threw their sanitary napkins in the toilets, even though there were bins provided for their disposal.
This newspaper later discovered that there were no midwives at the Leonora Cottage Hospital. The official within the management of the WDRH said that this may have been the reason that Azeez was told that she could not deliver her child there.
Azeez was eventually taken to a private hospital in Georgetown, where she gave birth to her baby at approximately 20 minutes after she arrived. This newspaper understands that the baby was delivered naturally, and that both the mother and child are doing well.
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