Amid overwhelming expressions of grief, Liloutie Ashantie Ramlall Khamis, 33, and her newborn son were laid to rest on Sunday, by family members who are now seeking answers to why certain procedures were taken.
Khamis of Beehive, East Coast Demerara, whose official cause of death was hypovolemic shock and rupture of the spleen due to a Caesarean section (C-section), and her son are the country’s latest maternal and infant mortality cases and her relatives feel there was some degree of negligence on the part of the attending physician. The woman died at the Davis Memorial Hospital, while her son succumbed later at the Georgetown Hospital.
According to her sister Parbattie Ramlall, Khamis and her husband had tried for
