The acting Chief Medical Officer has said that findings on some of the maternal deaths this year have indicated that there was laxity on the part of doctors as patients were not managed according to protocol.
This was relayed to Stabroek News by Dr Shamdeo Persaud in a recent interview where he discussed maternal deaths from a holistic perspective and looked at three of this year’s maternal and infant mortality cases.
Examining the report of 17-year-old Tasya Joseph who died on March 30th while being ambulanced from the Linden Hospital to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Dr Persaud said: “They feel there was some instances where the patient was not managed according to