Preliminary reports have indicated that Evita Singh, the mother who recently died days after she delivered a stillborn baby by caesarian-section at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), succumbed as a result of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), a rare, life-threatening condition that prevents blood from clotting normally.
This is according to Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health Dr Shamdeo Persaud, who has confirmed that Singh, 34, was forced to wait a while to undergo surgery because the only operating table in the maternity ward was occupied at the time and it took some time to prepare one of the five tables in the main theatre of the hospital.
While relatives of the mother of two are clamouring for answers, the GPH continued to remain silent about her death yesterday. The woman’s family yesterday continued to blame the hospital for her death, which they said was caused by care providers inserting some six Cytotec tablets over a two-day