Relatives of 66-year-old Janis Pritchard, who died after spending approximately 10 days in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), believe that families should be provided with daily updates on patients’ condition.
Pritchard died on September 23. She was a teacher at the Mabaruma Secondary School in Region One.
According to a relative who requested anonymity, Pritchard started getting a fever and a slight cough in early September. She attributed these symptoms to the common cold but as days passed the symptoms continued to persist and eventually Pritchard was taken to the hospital and was tested for malaria and dengue. Both test results were negative.
