The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has suggested that Pamela Lashley, whose 12-pound baby died during delivery, is suffering from post-partum depression or psychosis and indicated its willingness to provide counselling to her.
“There appears to be an issue of post-partum depression or psychosis being suffered by this patient and management is willing to provide counseling service to Ms Lashley, as improving people’s health, both physical and psychological, is [our] primary concern, GPH said in its ‘final statement” on the case, after a Stabroek News article about the patient’s decision to refuse a meeting with GPH’s administration.
Lashley, 32, of Victoria, East Coast Demerara, had told Stabroek News that she was forced to deliver her infant son vaginally on June 8. The woman said she was convinced her baby died of a