Relatives of heart patient Shebeki `Tiffany’ Enniss, 22, of Ithaca, West Bank Berbice who succumbed last week at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) following an abortion, feel that the doctors there should have waited before inserting a contraceptive device.
They told Stabroek News yesterday that they did not mind that the doctors advised the woman who was three months pregnant to abort the baby because it was a risk to her health. She suffered from a congenital heart defect.
She was “still bleeding a lot” when they inserted the contraceptive in the form of the ‘coil’ and that caused her to develop an infection they said.
They told this newspaper that the girl’s condition worsened and that her fiancé took her to see a doctor at the Palms Home.
He sent her back to the GPH with an “emergency letter” for the doctors to “do a clean-out and to remove the coil but they didn’t do it,” they said.
Her cousin, Donella Saul recalled that Enniss “was not feeling too well; she was vomiting and was having blowing [shortness of breath] and she went over to the health centre.”
The medex referred her to the New Amsterdam Hospital and she was admitted for the night. The following day she was transferred to the GPH.
She spent one week and during that time the abortion was done and the coil inserted. She was discharged one week later but her condition still worsened. Her fiancé took her back to the hospital the following day.
