The Georgetown Public Hospital has denied that it buried the 12-pound baby born to teacher Pamela Lashley, but claims that the child was stillborn and “the hospital’s policy is not to perform autopsies on stillborn (mascerated) babies”.
Stabroek News in yesterday’s edition featured an interview conducted with the 32-year-old primary school teacher of Victoria, East Coast Demerara. Lashley accused the hospital of negligence in her baby’s death on Friday last. The woman also expressed dissatisfaction that the hospital buried her child at an unknown location, even after she refused to sign documents which would allow the state to do so and said she was refused an autopsy.
In a press release issued yesterday, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) said it considered the report, which was published under the caption ‘Second 12lb baby dies in