Despite instructions from a doctor that a C-section should be done on Aseelah Haqq to deliver her baby the woman was forced to endure normal labour and was attached to a life support machine hours after giving birth.
This is the version of events her sister, Ayesha Haqq, related to Stabroek News last night at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where the woman was still attached to the life support machine. Several efforts made to contact hospital administrator Michael Khan for a comment last night were futile.
On Thursday, Ayesha told this newspaper, her sister was referred to the GPH by the Beterverwagting Health Centre. Aseelah had been suffering from complications and her pregnancy had gone over 42 weeks. At GPH, according to Ayesha, an ultrasound was conducted on her sister and the doctor ordered that a C-section be done on her sister since her body would not be able to take the strain of normal labour.
On Saturday, Ayesha alleged, her sister’s water-bag broke and she endured labour pains until yesterday when she was finally taken to the delivery room to give birth as per normal despite the doctor’s orders. Several hours after Aseelah delivered a healthy child, her sister said, her sister’s condition deteriorated rapidly.
“They told me that the blood vessel ruptured from the strain of delivering her baby and she started to bleed internally…they then hook her up to a life machine,” the distressed woman said.
Up to press time last night Ayesha said that her sister was still on the life machine.
“But the doctor done tell me that she clinically dead so I don’t know wa they trying to do,” Ayesha said.
“I intend to come back here (GPH) tomorrow and deal with this matter and I will take my complaints to other authorities as well,” she stated.
