Police are currently investigating the suspected poisoning of a nurse at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Tameca Carter, 24, of Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme, is now hospitalised in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the hospital, where she is being closely monitored although her condition is listed as stable.
After consuming passion fruit drink she had taken to work from home on Wednesday, Carter felt a burning sensation in her stomach and not long after started to vomit blood and passed out.
Carter had left the drink unattended in a ward refrigerator in order to attend to a colleague’s funeral. It was after she had returned from the funeral that she had the drink and she immediately took ill.
Hospital authorities took custody of the remainder of the drink and handed it over to police for testing.
Although several nurses have been questioned by the police, some others have been refusing to meet with investigators to give statements. A source said if the nurses do not cooperate with the policemen, they may be subjected to arrest.
Meanwhile, Carter’s family is hoping to remove her from the hospital, since they believe that not enough is being done to treat her. “We expected them [doctors] to be running a lot of tests on her but they ain’t doing nothing like that… she just in the ICU and that’s it,” a relative said.
Stabroek News was told that Minster of Public Health Dr. George Norton and Permanent Secretary Trevor Thomas are expected to visit the hospital soon to assess the situation.
