A mother died on Saturday night at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corpora-tion (GPHC) almost two weeks after she had given birth to a baby girl. She had developed placenta accreta, a life threatening condition that develops in high risk pregnancies.
Alexis Syfox fought valiantly but she lost the fight in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital where, according to Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton doctors did all in their power to save her life. He said that too many women are dying in childbirth.
Yesterday her husband, Shawn Syfox, was too distraught to speak to this newspaper but it is understood the woman is a mother of four children.
Speaking to this newspaper yesterday Minister Norton indicated that the woman developed the complication during her third birth by caesarian.
It was on September 9 the mother had given birth but she began to haemorrhage as a result of placenta accreta. This is a condition that occurs when blood vessels and other parts of the placenta grow too deeply into the uterine wall. Typically, the placenta detaches from the uterine wall after childbirth.