Mother sues GPHC for $20M after baby delivered dead

Jan 19, 2016 News

A mother is suing the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for in excess of $20M for negligence after her baby was delivered dead at the health facility’s maternity unit last November.

GPHC’s Maternity Unit

In a writ filed through Attorney-at-Law, Anil Nandlall, Euclin Gomes, Sase Gunraj, Manoj Narayan and Sasha Mahadeo, the mother; Sumarie Balwant is seeking damages and pecuniary compensation in excess of $20M for negligence.
She is blaming the hospital for contributing to her delivering a dead baby.
The sum will cover personal injuries and pain the mother suffered during November 16 and 18, last, the lawyers argued.
Balwant of Lot 640 Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was pregnant with her second child and had reached a full term pregnancy when she was rushed to GPHC to deliver the baby.
At the hospital, nurses reportedly refused to deliver her baby, saying that she was not ready, even though her amniotic sac (water bag) had burst.
Balwant’s relatives claimed that because of the nurses’ negligence, the baby suffocated and died inside the woman.
Her mother, Yungal Kumarie, had explained that her daughter had joined the clinic at GPHC during her pregnancy. She added that at her last visit to the clinic, she was told that everything was well with the baby and that she would be delivering soon.
However, when the woman went home that day, she started experiencing severe pain. She was taken to the hospital the following day where she was admitted.
This newspaper was told that the woman was examined by a nurse and was informed that she was not ready to deliver. The following day however, her amniotic sac burst.
She later reportedly complained of feeling the baby coming out of her womb but was told by a nurse that she was still not ready.
After experiencing severe pain, the woman was taken to the theatre the following day she later birth to a dead baby.
Kumarie said that her daughter later told her that when the nurses were preparing her for delivery, they did not find any heartbeat.
“If they (nurses) had carried her to the operation theatre since she started getting pain, my grandson would have been saved. Imagine my daughter tell these people that the baby coming down but they didn’t take her in, they wait till the baby dead and then take him out,” the woman related.