Kali­fa Clyne

The fam­i­ly of Caleb Dy­er, an in­fant who died five min­utes af­ter his birth, are call­ing on the North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) and the Min­istry of Health to give a full ac­count of the com­pli­ca­tions lead­ing to his death.Kami­lah Mar­cano-Dy­er, 19, went to Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Au­gust 18, filled with joy at the thought of de­liv­er­ing her first child.Her feel­ings changed to anx­i­ety, how­ev­er, when doc­tors in­formed her that an emer­gency Cae­sare­an sec­tion was need­ed in or­der to safe­ly de­liv­er her child.Kami­lah's moth­er, Bob­by Sue Mar­cano, who spoke in a tele­phone in­ter­view, said doc­tors told the fam­i­ly surgery would last ap­prox­i­mate­ly one hour.Hours lat­er, af­ter lengthy surgery, Mar­cano said doc­tors came to her and said, "The ba­by died but we think your daugh­ter will be all right."

When asked what hap­pened, she said doc­tors re­spond­ed that they did not know, but the fam­i­ly was lat­er told that the in­fant's death was the re­sult of a brain haem­or­rhage."We don't un­der­stand, her pri­vate doc­tor said every­thing was fine, the ba­by was healthy," Mar­cano said.She claims she was lat­er told by an em­ploy­ee of the hos­pi­tal that the surgery was de­layed be­cause doc­tors spent close to an hour search­ing for anaes­the­sia.Kami­lah says while wait­ing for the surgery doc­tors gave her sev­er­al spinal in­jec­tions which she sus­pect­ed could have been harm­ful to her ba­by.Mar­cano al­so claims that dur­ing surgery doc­tors cut a nerve in her daugh­ter's stom­ach which, she was told, could re­sult in a loss of feel­ing be­low the stom­ach for the rest of her life.An­toinette Broth­er­son, com­mu­ni­ca­tions of­fi­cer at the NWRHA, said the au­thor­i­ty was look­ing in­to the mat­ter but could not com­ment fur­ther on the sit­u­a­tion.