Relatives feel quicker response by Linden Hospital could have saved teen’s life

The Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) is again facing an accusation that its tardy response to a patient in its care has resulted in death.

Eighteen-year-old Jason Louis of Amelia’s Ward, Linden died at the LHC on Sunday night, and, according to his father Aldrin Louis and grandmother Pauline Hawker, if staff at the hospital responded faster and offered better care he would still be alive.

From birth Jason faced many challenges. When his mother was six months pregnant with him she was involved in an accident resulting in him being born prematurely. “The nurses and doctors back then fought really hard to keep him alive and they succeeded, I wish they had operated