Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran on Thursday told the National Assembly that a blackout at the New Amsterdam Hospital was not responsible for the death of a post-operative patient last month.
Tirtawattie Shoandeo, 47, of Lot 129 Whim Village, Corentyne, Berbice died at 2am on January 20th, seven hours after the completion of a surgical procedure at the hospital that had been interrupted by a blackout and the failure to get a back-p generator running.
Shoandeo’s family has said that as she was undergoing surgery on
