A pregnant woman died in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday, 10 days after she was rushed there from the New Amsterdam Hospital in an unconscious state. The hospital in a statement issued said the patient was referred from the New Amsterdam hospital on August 9 and passed away yesterday.
The statement further noted that the woman who was pregnant arrived at the Accident and Emergency Unit (A&EU) of the GPH in an unconscious state and with no foetal heart rate. However, she was transferred to the ICU where her condition continued to deteriorate and she subsequently died.
A post-mortem examination is to be performed to ascertain her cause of death.
The woman’s death is the most recent in a series of maternal death this year. Just on the 27th of last month, 21 year old Akeisha Richardson, who delivered a baby on July 24, died at the said hospital.
