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May 14, 2015 News
Weeks after Teresa Lalltoo delivered a dead baby girl at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH), has sent in a detailed report of the incident to the Ministry of Health, according to the Chief Medical Officer’s (CMO’s) secretary.
It is still unclear whether the GPHC has submitted its report. The Public Relations Officer of the GPHC, Sabatini Daniels said that she is unable to comment on the issue. Efforts to meet the CMO or his secretary were futile up to press time.
The CMO, Shamdeo Persaud, had initially told Kaieteur News reporter that when the Ministry of Health received the report of the incident, he contacted the WDRH and the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), requesting a report on the issue from both institutions.
Lalltoo was admitted to the WDRH on Saturday April 18, 2015 complaining of the regular labour pains, but these soon dissipated as the day went by, leaving her with only a cervical dilation of three centimeters and a failure to progress to the ideal 10cm.
Because of this, the next day, the doctors opted to put her on oxytocin drip to assist with inducing her pain and contractions; a bad choice, in light of the fact that there was no one available to staff the operating theatre should the worst case scenario have occurred.
After what one of the doctors, according to the mother, called “an experiment,” they decided to rupture her water bag since she had dilated to about 6cm. It was at this point that all the problems started, Miss Lalltoo reported, because as soon as they did that the umbilical cord came out and got lodged in the vagina.
This constriction caused the baby to receive a diminished supply of blood, leading to a decreased heart rate and eventually death of the foetus itself.
Seeing what had gone wrong, the doctors attempted to replace the cord and tried to birth the baby normally but were unsuccessful, causing only damage to the mother herself and with no staff for the theatre at the WDRH, she was subsequently rushed to GPHC where the baby was delivered dead the following day.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Shamdeo Persaud, from information given in the report by the family, said that to his knowledge GPHC would not have had any doing in the foetus’ demise, as on arrival to the institution the foetus’s heartbeat had already stopped; more than likely the fault may have been at the WDRH.
He disclosed too, that doctors and nurses who would have attended to Teresa Lalltoo, the woman that gave birth to the stillborn last Monday at the GPHC, have been summon to give a report on their account of what transpired on the day of the woman’s admission to the facilities.
After continuous contact between the secretary and the brother of the woman, Dave Lalltoo, it was revealed that WDRH finally sent in the report which was allegedly ordered by the CMO.
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