Hospital cited in baby’s death

The mother and relatives of an eight-month-old baby girl, who succumbed shortly after receiving medical attention at the Linden Hospital Complex, are claiming that the child died due to the negligence of medical personnel who attended to her.
The baby’s mother, 16-year old Keniesha Hyles, of 8 Section ‘C’ Christianburg, Linden, said that she had taken the child, Kataleya Hyles, to the hospital last Saturday, after she observed that the baby had turned blue. According to the young woman, when she reached the hospital the child was seen by a Medex and given two injections, and sent home.
She would however promptly return to the hospital after her brother-in-law, who is a nurse, observing that the baby’s hands were limp, checked for a pulse, and found none.
Hyles said that although the baby was already dead when she returned to the hospital, staff still pumped her stomach, and also inserted a tube and extracted the contents.
They later claimed that the baby died, while they were attending to her, Hyles said.
She said that they also told her that she had over breastfed the baby.
But Hyles said that she did not breastfeed the baby after she had returned home with her, and that the baby had not been breastfeeding properly a few days prior to its death.
Hyles’ aunt and her mother, Feona Holder, are adamant that the baby was already dead, even before she reached the hospital the second time.
They are also convinced that the child’s life could have been saved, if oxygen was administered immediately after she was taken to the hospital, the first time.
According to the two women, the baby’s blue color was a clear indication that she was not getting enough oxygen, but instead of giving her oxygen, she was only given two injections