-injection triggered crisis
A Corentyne father is pleading for answers after his daughter passed away at the New Amsterdan Public Hospital on Tuesday. For the last week, three children within the region have died suddenly at the hospital, leaving their families in a state of shock.
The father, Chandrika Raghu, 53, of Number 62 Village, Corentyne, yesterday explained that on Sunday last he took his daughter Naiomi Raghu, 8, a pupil at the New Market Primary School, to the Skeldon Public Hospital after she had fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.
He said she was eventually transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where she was administered saline. “Me stay in all two nights with she so me went right deh. Them run scan and blood test but them na tell me nothing wah wrong with she.”
According to the man, his daughter seemed to have been recovering until Tuesday morning when everything took a turn for the worse. “Them give she one injection and then afterwards she start blow hard hard and me call the nurse quick and she call them doctor.”
Raghu said, that about four doctors rushed to his daughter and they ordered him out of the ward. About twenty minutes later he was informed that his daughter had passed away – something he is still to come to terms with.
According to the single father, seven years ago his wife separated from him leaving their daughter with him. He said, he and his daughter lived with his mother who assisted in taking care of her while he worked.
“Me daughter helpful bad, she does help she grandmother sweep and wash wares, she always helping you na got to ask her. Me can’t believe she dead. She been okay, she been a talk normal, normal and then when them give she the injection she na catch back herself.”
Meanwhile, it is unclear if a post-mortem examination was carried out on Raghu. According to her father, he was told to go the hospital on Thursday for the post mortem to be done “but when I go them say how the doctor that got to cut she na deh so them na do it and them na call me back yet.”
The emotional man said, “It hard, it really hard, me a sit down and just cry, me na know wah fa do.”
The father is pleading for answers from the authorities as he called for a thorough investigation to be carried out.
As of yesterday, the health authority in the region remained silent on the matter. However, a regional source noted that an investigation is ongoing.
