"They don't know how I'm hurting...I am going to grieve for the rest of my life," Mark Foster said as he sat outside the mortuary of the San Fernando General Hospital yesterday with his in-laws, awaiting autopsy reports on his wife Nyca Foster and their unborn baby, Gabriel.Foster, 33, said he was seriously considering legal action against the South West Regional Heath Authority (SWRHA) over the deaths of his wife and child.Nyca Foster, 29, died at the San Fernando hospital on Saturday, three days after she was admitted with severe abdominal pains.She was eight months' pregnant and according to a preliminary report, she died after suffering a seizure on Saturday morning.Her husband said he believed the deaths were due to medical negligence.
"I feel they did not pay proper attention to my wife and they did not do anything to save her or the child," he said.
"If it was someone of a higher class, they would have done it different."
"I don't know how much drugs they can give her when she is pregnant...Should they have done that?
"My mind only telling me they killed my wife and baby."
Recalling his final moments with his wife, Foster said: "She was sleeping everytime I go to see her because of the drugs, so on Saturday I went with the hope that she would be awake.
"I reach around 11.30 am and a doctor told me to wait outside," he said.
"About an hour after, the doctor said Nyca had stopped responding, her heartbeat had stopped and the baby had died too."
Foster said when he saw his wife's body, her lips were discoloured as if she had passed away hours before he arrived.Gabriel was the second child the Foster's had lost. Their first child, Anika, died of natural causes at two months.
"We were excited...I was looking forward to having this child," he said.
"He would have been a boy and I had already named him Gabriel.
"I know I will see him one day in a different life.
"Now I have to start life all over again and I know I will never get a woman like Nyca.
"I had planned to build a house and we would moved out from her mother's place...Now everything is all gone."
Foster said although no amount of money could compensate for the loss of his wife and son, he wanted to be reimbursed for the cost of their burials.