Family sues GPHC for $20M over new-born’s skull fracture

Phoulmattie Ramjattan

Akiem Balgobin, the father of the new-born who fell from a cot at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), has filed an over $20 million lawsuit against the hospital.

In the suit filed on Azim Balgobin’s behalf, through attorney Anil Nandlall, the GPHC is accused of negligence and causing injury to the infant as a result.

Last month, the hospital said in a statement that the infant had fallen off the cot on which he was placed an