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Sep 07, 2010 News
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been rocked by another maternal death. Aseelah Haqq, 33 of 114 Middle Walk Buxton, East Coast Demerara, succumbed Sunday night after giving birth to a 12-pound baby girl.
According to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, if there is any malpractice on behalf of any medical official at the GPHC, an investigation will be carried out through a process that will take a few weeks.
A post-mortem is to be done on Wednesday. Sources at the GPHC disclosed that a meeting would be convened today to evaluate what went wrong after the delivery took place.
According to her sister, Ayesha Haqq, she visited the hospital yesterday morning to collect her niece but was told to seek permission from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, where consent was given.
“They at the hospital need to deal with people like human beings and not like animals.” Haqq exclaimed.
This newspaper understands that the woman was a diabetic and had surgery for appendicitis earlier in the year, which was not properly healed. However, she was to deliver her child by C-section but had a natural delivery that contributed to her demise.
Relatives disclosed that an ultra-sound was done and it was found that the child was very large and Haqq needed to have a C-section, but she was forced to have a natural delivery.
Haqq said a doctor told her that while her sister was in delivery there were complications internally, which caused her to bleed heavily leading to her death.
Relatives are alleging that the negligence and unprofessionalism of the nurses and doctors at the GPHC caused the demise of the mother of four.
Relatives are also calling on the Health Minister to launch an investigation surrounding the death of Aseelah Haqq.
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