Georgetown: The management of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is yet to receive a final report on the post mortem examination conducted on the remains of Rohini Balkaran who passed away suddenly at the public institution on Monday. This is according to a statement issued by the Hospital today which pointed to the fact that the patient was seen at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit on January 16 last and her condition was recognized as an acute medical condition. As such treatment was initiated in the A&E Department and she was subsequently admitted to the High Dependency Unit, the statement added, pointing out that her response to treatment was sub-optimal. “The patient was incubated and subsequently transferred to the Intensive Care Unit, unfortunately she succumbed.”
It was also noted that while the PM was conducted yesterday a final report is yet to be submitted.
This publication understands that the PM was conducted by a Cuban doctor who was able to determine that while the woman had suffered from cardiac arrest and there was evidence of low potassium there was nothing to ascertain what triggered her condition.
The hospital in a previous statement had noted that an assessment into the death of the Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara, resident had been engaged by the relevant officials. It was further noted that a pronouncement cannot be made without the results of a PM.
According to the woman’s husband, Chris Persaud, he was informed by hospital officials that since there are some questions pertaining to the woman’s death, no death certificate could be issued. He was told that samples of his wife’s remains will have to be sent abroad for further testing. Reports are that the samples should be sent off shortly and once processed in a timely manner will return by next month. “I have my opinions about what happened to my wife but I am going to be professional about it and let the experts deal with this…I will wait on the results to come back next month…right now I am a bit depressed and so all I can do is wait and see what caused her to die like this,” said a distraught Persaud on Wednesday.
The 33-year-old woman was a teacher at the Bladen Hall Multilateral School and a student of the University of Guyana pursuing a degree in education. She was said to be of good health and had no prior health complaints other than pains in her heels prior to being attended to by a medical physician one day before being rushed to the Public Hospital with incapacitated lower limbs.
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