Patricia Walcott, 29, the pregnant woman who died in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday, had been in pain for days before she was eventually hospitalised but kept it to herself.
This is according to Maxwell McDonald, Walcott’s common-law husband, who told Stabroek News that his wife was eight days overdue prior to her admission at the Fort Wellington hospital, Region Five.
The grieving McDonald said his wife attended clinic throughout her pregnancy and she had no complications. However, she began experiencing pains and it was not until it became excruciating that she informed relatives, who then rushed her to the Fort Wellington Hospital.
A nurse there said that Walcott had a flu and she was being treated for that, McDonald said.
McDonald recalled his wife telling him that that she was seen by a midwife at the hospital and she was informed that she had to wait two more weeks for delivery.
However, based on what he recalled his wife telling him earlier, she was eight days overdue to deliver.
McDonald could not say why his wife was transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital. He said he only learned that she was transferred from the New Amsterdam Hospital after her subsequent admission to the GPH, where he found her in an unconscious state.
The GPH, in a statement, had said that Walcott was rushed to the GPH on August 9th, in an unconscious state. At the time of admission at the GPH, there was no foetal heart rate and she was later transferred to the Intensive Care Unit where she succumbed, the statement added.
Walcott, of Hopetown, West Coast Berbice, is survived by four children.
