Another young mother has died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC). Twenty-one-year-old Akeisha Richardson, who delivered a baby on Friday, July 24, died at GPHC on Monday, July 27, 2015.
When contacted by Stabroek News for comment Richardson’s mother Ruth Brisport said that she was not yet ready to discuss her daughter’s death.
Repeated efforts to contact Chief Medical Officer Dr Shamdeo Persaud and Minister of Health Dr George Norton proved futile.
According to a release from GPHC, “following delivery, [Richardson] started experiencing seizures and was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit where she was being monitored. However, she subsequently died.”
Richardson is the most recent in a series of maternal and child