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May 16, 2016 News
A family is demanding answers after a 21-year-old bed-ridden man was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday although he has been unable to pass urine for the pass four days.
Paul Emptage of Lot 44 New Settlers Street, Mocha, East Bank Demerara was taken to the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital Friday afternoon after his sister observed that he was not passing urine.
Emptage has been confined to a bed for over a year now after receiving injuries to his foot while working in a mining camp at Mahdia. However, family members are adamant that his current state is as a result of tetanus injections among other injections he was given while receiving treatment for his injuries at the Mahdia Hospital.
His aunt, Rosaline Caser told Kaieteur News, “He (Emptage) was working in a pit and he get lash with a wire rope. The wire rope fly up out the pit and lash he on the foot. He said that when he come out the pit he was feeling bad pain and went home.”
Caesar recalled that he visited the Mahdia Hospital and was given a series of injections including tetanus. After his visit to the Mahdia Hospital, the aunt added that he went home to get some rest and later realized that he was unable to move when his mother come calling for him.
“We feel that this thing stem from them injections that they gave him with that tetanus”, she lamented. After receiving treatment at that hospital Emptage was transported to the city and admitted to GPHC where he was discharged after a few months.
A bed ridden Emtage was left in care of his family who willingly tended to his every need. However, his condition got worse last Friday.
“Friday afternoon we notice he running a temperature and Jane (Emptage’s sister) tell me that this morning Paul aint pee. So I seh wah he aint pee? We gonna carry he to Diamond Hospital and see why he aint pee. She (Jane) said that he crying out for his belly”, Caesar related.
On a visit to the Diamond Hospital, the aunt said that doctors conducted an emergency ultrasound and noticed that there was mass around his bladder, which is causing blockage to his urinal track. Caesar stated that doctors at the institution explained that they could not have dealt with her nephew’s condition and referred him to the GPHC. The aunt said that doctors informed her that the young man’s kidney was swollen and gave them a letter for his referral.
According to Caesar, her nephew was seen by a doctor at the GPHC where he underwent another ultrasound. The woman recalled that he was given an injection by means of saline. She said that the doctor changed her nephew’s urine bag to make sure that it was connected to his bladder.
“And after he (the doctor) changed it he said that we going to see if urine will come.
We said okay…we sit their one hour…two hour…three hour and no urine aint come”, Caesar recalled. She continued, “He come with a saline bag and tek off the urine bag and put on the bag with the saline water and started to pump the saline water through his penis to see if it would bring out urine behind it.”
But Caesar stated that Emptage never passed urine and later went for a chest x-ray. The x-ray she said showed nothing unusual in his system. She added that the patient was seen by another doctor who had a difficult time removing his urine.
The woman stated, “I explained to this doctor that the other doctor pumped the saline water into him to get down the fluid. And he try and he try and he inject and he inject then he went for a surgeon for assistance.”
She said that the surgeon assured her that her nephew will pass urine after performing a third ultrasound. Caesar pointed out that she overheard the doctors discussing that there was matter outside of Emptage’s bladder which should not have been there.
Caesar is contending that her nephew should not have been discharged from the hospital in that condition. On a visit to Kaieteur News yesterday afternoon, Emptage was seen lying at the back of a minibus crying out for pain. His aunt took the opportunity to highlight that he had several ulcers about his body which she said he developed while hospitalized at GPHC.
The aunt said that everything was normal when he was first admitted to the GPHC. She added that after spending almost a week in the Accident and Emergency Unit, she noticed that his health began deteriorating.
“They put him in the High Dependency Unit for over a month and his condition worsened. He fell in a coma and could not have recognized his family. He was not eating and three weeks after we noticed that he had a big hole in his back and ulcers all over his body”.
Caesar cried that since the incident his life has not been the same. She described him has a very shy young man and explained that his mother took him into the interior to work.
“If we had the money we would have never took him to GPHC. We don’t like how they treating his case. This is a young boy…the only thing he does trouble with is malaria.”
The family is making an appeal to the Minister of Public Health to look into their situation . Caesar claimed that Dr. George Norton had promised to assist her nephew when she visited him last year. But the woman pointed out that she has not received any help from the minister so far.
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