“My child was healthy when he was taken to the hospital”
Officials at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation remain tight-lipped on the sudden death of a four-year-old child who was admitted to the medical facility to seek treatment after he bit his tongue.
On Wednesday, officials at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation declined to release the findings of an autopsy on the body of four-year-old Jaden Mars, who died on Tuesday. He was taken to the hospital to receive treatment for his injured tongue.
The post-mortem on Mars was performed by Dr Nehaul Singh at the hospital’s mortuary.
When contacted, Chief Executive Officer Michael Khan said he is not authorised to reveal the findings of the pathologist without consulting with the relatives of the dead child.
Little Jaden was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital, a few hours after he was admitted last week Wednesday.
His mother Natalie Caseley explained that last Wednesday, her now dead son hit his chin and ultimately led to his tongue receiving a small cut that would have required about three stitches.
The child’s mother took him to the East La Penitence Health Centre, a short distance from their home, and while there, the nurses washed away the blood and referred him to the Georgetown Public Hospital for further medical attention.
Drowsy state
At the hospital, a nurse administered anaesthetic once, but it did not work, and as such, she administered another dose and still the lad did not fall into a drowsy state.
The distraught mother said after one hour, a group of people came out from a room in the Accident and Emergency Unit, informing her that it was necessary for her son to be transferred to the theatre to look after his tongue.
Her son, she added, did not want to go, claiming that his tongue was okay, but she insisted that the “nice doctors” will make him feel better faster.
“I told him to go and I will be right here waiting on him when he gets out… that was the last moment I saw him… after he said ‘yes mommy’”.
After some time elapsed, she explained that a few medical professionals came out of the theatre and told her that Mars was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit after suffering cardiac arrest.
“When I went to see my child, he was strapped up with oxygen onto a machine and he was unresponsive… the machine was working, but there were no movements coming from my son.”
The mother said she left after she was given all assurances by the doctors that her son would be ok, however, she reportedly received a call from the hospital about mid-night informing her that her son had suffered another seizure and they were trying their best to save him.
The woman is of the opinion that her child was overdosed with anaesthetic.
This, she alleged might have resulted in him suffering more than five cardiac arrests.
Caseley is insisting that her son was healthy when he was taken to the hospital even though he has had some problems with asthma in the past. The mother is demanding a full investigation, contending that nothing can replace her loss.
