Relatives of a 35-year-old El Dorado, West Coast Berbice woman who gave birth to a healthy baby on November 6 were shocked after she died six days later following severe fever and pain.
It is suspected that Trichel Wilson who had a successful delivery by caesarean-section at the New Amsterdam Hospital had apparently developed an infection. A post-mortem examination is expected to be performed soon.
Her mother Patricia Wilson, 59, told Stabroek News that her daughter showed no signs of being unwell after she was discharged from the hospital.
However a few days later she developed a severe pain on her left side from the neck down to the hip. She visited the Fort Wellington Hospital where she was treated and sent away.
The doctor also told her that she should return if her condition did not improve. The next day, she had taken her baby to the hospital to be registered when she had to be admitted for the day for further treatment.
Then instead of feeling better, the following morning when she woke up, her condition took a turn for the worse.
Wilson said her daughter told her that the pain became unbearable and that it had started on the other side.
According to the woman, “Trichel start to breathe very hard and her [nine-year-old] son start crying and asking, ‘mommy yuh gon die and leave me’?” Within a short time, she took her last breath.
A doctor who spoke to this newspaper anonymously said the infection Trichel contracted could be meningitis which occurs to about one in every 10,000 persons.
He said too that it could happen in and out of hospital and that medical staff and other persons need to observe proper hygiene at all times.
