(Jamaica Star) A distraught Dayna Thorpe, 28, says she is still on a quest to be provided with some sort of closure from the Falmouth Hospital following the death of her newborn in December 2018.
“It is painful. All now I can’t get any answers,” Thorpe told THE STAR. “All now they can’t tell me what the cause of death was. Come on, man. I’m human and I lost a child. I need answers. I have a son that mimics the son I lost and this entire situation just breaks my heart.” Thorpe said that she did an ultrasound at 36 weeks and the baby weighed six pounds.
“The doctors were saying the baby was too big and all of this was documented,” she said. “I continued to do my follow-up and went back to clinic on the 5th of December. The doctor examined me and say my passage is too small for a vaginal delivery.”
NATURALLY DELIVER
After being admitted to hospital, Thorpe said she had to naturally deliver the baby which was almost 11 pounds by then. “On December 6, I went to the Falmouth Hospital to deliver my child. I was supposed to do C-section because my passage was too small. I was there waiting to do the operation only to see them induce me. I had to deliver vaginally,” she said. In an attempt to get answers, Thorpe has sought the services of attorney-at-law Rachel Donaldson. Donaldson told THE STAR that the case still hasn’t gone before the court as the hospital has filed a motion for time extension to build their defence.
“A document was filed and served on the attorney general and they responded. They acknowledged serving, however, they failed to file a defence in the appropriate time. So they have filed an application to grant an extension to file the defence and this was last year December and we haven’t heard from them since but I have gone ahead and filed the fall of judgement,” she said.
Meanwhile, regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority, Errol Greene, said he is aware that a lawsuit is being filed against the hospital but said he is not prepared to discuss the merits of the case.
