Hospital denies that 3-hour delay caused baby’s death

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday denied claims by a patient that her baby died in childbirth, because she had to wait more than three hours for caesarian surgery, even as one of the child’s hands dangled from her vagina, asserting instead that the baby was dead before the woman was admitted to hospital.

Sinead Haynes, 20, claims that on the evening of last Thursday she went into labour and subsequently her amniotic sac broke. She then checked herself into the maternity section of the Georgetown Public Hospital, around 8.30 pm, with antenatal clinic card, from the South Road Clinic, in hand.

She said she gave the clinic card to the nurse on duty explaining to her that the said date was given to her for