Baby who cracked skull on hospital floor in traumatic delivery should heal in 6 weeks

Nyesha Hamilton with her infant son

The mother of the baby who fell on the Georgetown Public Hospital’s (GPH) floor during delivery a month ago said that Neurosurgeon Dr Amarnauth Dukhi has told her that his fractured skull needs at least six weeks to heal.

Nyesha Hamilton, 21, of Eighteenth Street, Dazzel Housing Scheme, who delivered her first child, Ricardo Hamilton, traumatically on the hospital’s floor, said that according to the doctor the baby’s injury was not serious and because he is a newborn, the small fracture and the bump can heal. Hamilton said that though she was relieved to hear this, she still worries that there