`I can still hear the screams of my daughter’
“I can still hear the screams of my daughter, as medical personnel pulled out a still born female, from her seemingly lifeless body. I don’t know who I am,” a distraught Melena Wilson stated yesterday, as she recapped the events leading up to the death of her eldest daughter at the New Amsterdam Regional Hospital.
Twenty-four-year-old Toshana Wilson, of Lot 74 Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice, was looking forward to giving birth to her daughter. She was not fearful of any complications, even though she was diagnosed with Type I diabetes, once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, when she was just 14 months old. As such, she understood the challenges of the chronic, metabolic disease characterised by elevated levels of blood glucose (or blood sugar).
