The investigation into the deaths of two Canefield siblings days apart is still ongoing and according to a regional source, officials from within the region and Georgetown are carrying out the probe.
Kumar Mohabeer, 33, father of the children, Vishnu Mohabeer, also known as ‘Ricardo’, 10, and Arianna Mohabeer, 9, had explained that last Sunday he left for work and his son was lying on the bed. “The last word he tell me that he okay and before I reach Rose Hall I get the call that he take in and when I come before them reach hospital he pass away.”
A post-mortem examination carried out on Mohabeer revealed that he died from splenomegaly (an enlarged spleen).
Following the death, the father said the boy’s sister developed a fever and she kept asking for her brother on Sunday evening. As such they decided to take her to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital. “She get scared and after she get lil fever we take her and them admit her and take her to the ward and the child was good. Monday morning the child come out and swing on a rocker, them have a rocker in the hospital back and the child come out and a play and then when them give she the injection the child never recovered back.”
According to the father, after being administered the injection which they were eventually told was an antibiotic, Mohabeer said, “after that the child get weak, like the child start stunted there.”
He said they were initially told that Arianna had dengue fever and malaria, however after she passed away “them telling we something else that the child get some sick in she lungs that water go touch she heart.”
When contacted yesterday the father relayed that a post-mortem examination was carried out however the results were not immediately given to him. Additionally, he said that he was told that samples were taken from her body for testing.
He maintained that the family is demanding a thorough investigation and answers as to what led to the death of his daughter and son.
A statement from the Regional Democratic Council of Region Six on Thursday said that “while preparations were being made to transfer the patient (Arianna) to the GPHC the child suffered a cardiac arrest and died in the Intensive Care Unit.”
A medical professional yesterday questioned what may have caused the minor to suffer a sudden cardiac arrest. With it being suspected that the child suffered from dengue fever, the professional said that there isn’t a specific antibiotic to treat the illness.
“The first stage is to treat it with painkillers to maintain the temperature and fluid, the second stage is to do fluid management and how much is in the patient and so forth, there is no specific antibiotic for it.”
According to the professional, it is likely that the patient was administered some type of pain killer, “so they gave them strong medication, in terms of pain medication to help their temperature come down and the dose must have been wrong.”
The professional further questioned the claim of a cardiac arrest, stating, “children just don’t have cardiac arrest they have respiratory arrest, they said the child started to feel limp after the injection, so the injection did not go into her muscle or her belly fat it went into the cannula in the back of her hand so it went in intravenously so it went straight into her system.”
The professional stated that if this happens then “the child goes into respiratory arrest, it means she is so sedated that her lungs are forgetting how to breathe and she’s going to shut down.”
According to the medical professional, if it was a large dose of medication then an antidote should have been administered. “Why wasn’t this done?”
