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Mom slips into depression after miscarriage at hospital

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Kevon Felmine
2016 days ago
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Sarah Ramsaroop speaks wih GML at her Williamville Home

Sarah Ramsaroop speaks wih GML at her Williamville Home

Kevon Flemine

It’s a strug­gle for Sarah Ram­sa­roop to sleep at night, wor­ried that turn­ing on her stom­ach may dam­age her un­born ba­by. But it has been two weeks since Isa­iah died be­fore he could open his eyes to the world.

The 22-year-old Williamsville man­ag­er strug­gled to hold back tears when she de­scribed how she de­liv­ered her ba­by on a wheel­chair while wait­ing for help at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Even with the foe­tus at her feet, still at­tached to her womb, Ram­sa­roop said she wait­ed close to nine hours be­fore she was ad­min­is­tered med­ical help at the hos­pi­tal. The trau­ma has caused her to self harm and she is now con­tem­plat­ing le­gal ac­tion against the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA).

When asked about her re­cov­ery, she said: “I would like to show you how I am feel­ing. I start­ed cut­ting up my hands be­cause of the pain emo­tion­al­ly and phys­i­cal­ly and men­tal­ly. It is just hard to deal with. For nine hours. To see your child out for nine hours and no­body at­tend­ing to you. They did not even treat me like a hu­man be­ing, it was like an an­i­mal.”

Ram­sa­roop checked in­to the hos­pi­tal’s Ac­ci­dent & Emer­gency De­part­ment on Jan­u­ary 6 around 11 pm af­ter suf­fer­ing se­vere pain from com­pli­ca­tions. She said she pre­vi­ous­ly vis­it­ed the hos­pi­tal sev­er­al times be­cause of the de­bil­i­tat­ing pain but was sent home each time, even though she knew some­thing was wrong. Isa­iah was due Ju­ly 13. De­spite be­ing en­rolled at the clin­ic at the Williamsville Health Cen­tre, there was nev­er any in­di­ca­tion that her preg­nan­cy was in trou­ble.

She said, “I re­mem­ber my boyfriend telling the ward at­ten­dant to bring a trol­ly be­cause I could not stand, I could not walk. The on­ly thing I could have done was lay down. They still brought the trol­ly and I in­sist­ed be­cause I was in a lot of pain. I went in­to triage, cry­ing wotj pain, telling the nurse that their was a ball in my bel­ly with fever. I could lit­er­al­ly move the ball.

She was like, ‘You have to wait your turn, there are oth­er peo­ple in front of you’.

“Around 2 am, pain! All I re­mem­ber was telling my boyfriend that some­thing was com­ing out, ‘My ba­by com­ing out’ and when I looked down, blood on the wheel­chair. The ba­by was out al­ready. I told the doc­tor, she said I need to hold on. Look­ing for ward at­ten­dants, none. My boyfriend had to lift me from the wheel­chair and put me on the trol­ley bed. When he put me there, the doc­tor came and said ‘You’re pan­ick­ing for noth­ing’. Me, in my mind: ‘Why would I pan­ic for noth­ing, my ba­by is al­ready out’,” Ram­sa­roop said.

De­spite giv­en the as­sur­ance that she was ok, Ram­sa­roop said when the doc­tor re­turned and raised her dress, she too be­gan to pan­ic.

With her pla­cen­ta and um­bil­i­cal cord out on her leg but still at­tached to the womb, she was again made to wait some more hours.

“Be­tween those hours, every time I look down, I’m just see­ing my ba­by there, life­less, help­less, mo­tion­less and I can’t do any­hing. I begged them from when I went up­stairs, ‘some­body, you all could see me? Some­body? Any­body?’”

How­ev­er, she said the staff’s at­ti­tude was scorn­ful, even from the in­tern, who at­tend­ed to her. It was on­ly a mid­wife from an­oth­er ward who helped her with­out mak­ing her feel as if she was an an­i­mal.

“An in­tern, again, came and did not give me any pain med­ica­tion. She start­ed scrap­ing me out on the ward. Pain! I held the doc­tor’s hand be­cause I was re­al­ly scared. It was my first time go­ing through this. She was like ‘Don’t touch my hands, I don’t want you touch­ing my hands’. So I am cry­ing, cry­ing and when they stopped, it was like ‘OK, the ba­by out, they could get rid of the ba­by’ be­cause they weren’t al­lowed to give me the ba­by. They just said you can look at the ba­by. I took pic­tures of my child. I was not sup­posed to but the nurse said go ahead. I took the pic­tures of the child and then they took my child and they went with my child.”

She said she and her boyfriend were try­ing to be­gin their fam­i­ly for the past two years but af­ter the trau­ma, she is afraid to try again. De­spite a re­quest for the med­ical re­port de­tail­ing what hap­pened, she has been told to try again.

SWRHA’s act­ing med­ical di­rec­tor of Health Dr Pravin­de Ra­moutar said an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched and Ram­sa­roop has been ini­a­ti­at­ed


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