Cabinet has ordered that officials connected to the Skeldon Hospital where Esther Dwarka-Bowlin died last weekend after giving birth to her third child, appear before a special Cabinet sub-committee, in an effort to seek answers about the incident.
Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon at his post cabinet press briefing yesterday said that Cabinet “noted with dismay” the recent death of the woman reported in Stabroek News on Monday. He said Cabinet has urged that “the investigation into this maternal death be concluded soon within the set time frame.”
Regarding the special Cabinet sub committee, Luncheon said that officials from the Ministry of Health, regional health services and those in whatever ways related to investigations and delivery of care at that health institution have been summoned, in an effort to get information that would bring clarity and that would have to bring improvements.
Dwarka-Bowlin, the acting Headmistress of the Princetown Nursery School in Corriverton, died last weekend at the Skeldon Hospital after giving birth to her third child-a healthy baby boy unassisted. She was taken to the hospital at about 8:30 pm on Friday evening after she began experiencing labour pains. When relatives arrived for the 6 am visit on Saturday, she was discovered dead.
A post-mortem conducted on the 28-year-old woman revealed that she died as a result of internal injuries.
