| – cause of death listed as pneumoniaThe parents of 11-month-old Reuel Albert – Robin Albert and Onica Atkinson – are notRobin Albert with his son in happier times.taking their son’s death lightly. They want a thorough investigation but Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr Shamdeo Persaud, yesterday disclosed that there isn’t much he can report directly to them. This can however be remedied, Dr Persaud noted, if a written complaint is sent to his office.“If they wish for me to report on the investigation then they need to write me a formal complaint. If they don’t write me a formal complaint then I would quietly deal with it in-house and I won’t report to anyone,” said the CMO, yesterday.Dr Persaud has also revealed that an investigation into the child’s death has commenced.The young Albert, who was initially diagnosed with a heavy cold died at the Port Kaituma airstrip on Tuesday while awaiting a medical evacuation.A post mortem examination conducted on the child yesterday revealed that the cause of death was pneumonia.The parents of the child who are residents of Port Kaituma, Region One,Cheap Jerseys From China Online, are convinced that the child’s death was a result of negligence on the part of the attending doctor.The child was first seen at the Port Kaituma Hospital during the Easter holiday weekend and was treated for a cold.According to Robin Albert when he returned from work in the interior,Wholesale China Jerseys, Atkinson,NFL Jerseys Authentic Cheap, his reputed wife, told him that his only child had a severe cold and she had taken him to the hospital for treatment. Atkinson, who is also the mother of another child, had taken the sick boy to the Port Kaituma hospital after observing that he had a runny nose, red eyes and was constantly sneezing.Both Atkinson and Albert are adamant that they administered the medication prescribed for the child as ordered by the doctor. But instead of improving, the child’s condition became worse, recalled Albert, who noted that he paid especially close attention to his son whose left shoulder had also started to swell.“He started wheezing like he couldn’t breathe,” recalled Albert. The child was admitted to the hospital on two occasions.However,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, he later became severely ill and a medical evacuation was recommended.But the dead child’s parents are convinced that had the attending doctor transferred the child earlier he could have still been alive.According to Robin Albert, the attending doctor had even related at one point that he wasn’t even aware of what was wrong with the child.The man recalled that “they bore my son up about 20 times trying to get a vein…Even the doctor boring and boring and the nurses boring and boring and can’t find a vein. It was hard to watch what they do me son,” said Robin Albert who disclosed that the doctor’s inability to find a vein seemed to frustrate the doctor.“He started saying he ain’t even know what wrong with this child and how he gon transfer him to Mabaruma (hospital),Authentic Jerseys Cheap,” added the man who said that he instead asked of the doctor to transfer his child to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).The man said that while the doctor eventually agreed to transfer the child to Georgetown, he noted that the case was not being treated as an emergency.It wasn’t until the child developed a breathing problem,Cheap Jerseys From China, that Robin Albert noted that it was administered oxygen and his case deemed an emergency. “Suddenly the doctor say prepare to medevac the child. By then he couldn’t breathe,” disclosed Robin Albert.But according to the CMO, the approach that the public health system embraces for dealing with such cases is one where the district doctor is expected to remain in contact with the Paediatric Unit at the GPHC. “If the child is under one (year old)(the attending doctor) would talk with doctors in the (GPHC) Paediatric Unit and give them a description of what is going on…after which they would decide on whether a transfer is important,” said Dr Persaud.As such he pointed out that a decision to transfer an ailing child is not only based on the decision of the attending doctor. “This is a bad impression parents are having…it is not a case where you see a child and you don’t know what is going on and you transfer the child.“We have had a lot of cases like that; it is sad that in this case the child died but my understanding is, and I would have to check this, that the procedure is, once the child comes, examine the child.“The doctor is in contact with the hospital’s (GPHC) team and if its surgery, paediatric, whatever is the area, even if its neonatal under 28 weeks, and jointly they decide when and if the child’s transfer should happen.”Although this system is one that has been working well, Dr Persaud noted yesterday that he was not in a position to say whether this was adhered to in this case. He said that an investigation that has been launched into the child’s death will seek to ascertain whether all of the recommended procedures were followed. |
