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| Friday, February 04, 2011 |
Linden woman with pelvic injury following stillbirth back in hospital
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Lindener Sherronica Cummings, who had sustained severe pelvic damage while delivering what turned out to be a stillborn baby at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) in October last year, has been readmitted to the hospital with complications relating to that injury.
According to close relatives and friends the woman was readmitted to the LHC’s female ward on January 20, still unable to walk, with excruciating chest pains. On that day, her father-in-law Mervyn Whyte said he received a telephone call from a taxi driver urging him to go and secure Cummings’s home because she was on her way to the hospital.
Whyte said though he found the call strange, he complied, then he headed to the hospital. He said Cummings told him she couldn’t bear the pain anymore so she called a taxi and headed to the hospital.
Other relatives have said that since her discharge, the woman had been experiencing dizziness and fainting spells.
Cummings said she had told doctors and nurses about these symptoms in December and they had told her she was experiencing depression over the death of her child and her injuries.
She said although these conditions prevailed, doctors and nurses held firm to the first diagnosis but her condition worsened and she began to experience severe chest pains. At this juncture, she said she insisted on a heart test.
“I told them and they were still telling me the same thing. I had to insist that I needed a heart test and they discovered that there is a blockage in one of valves to my heart,” she said. Since the discovery, Cummings said she has been receiving treatment though her body is responding slowly to it.
Cummings also complained bitterly that she is not getting the best care; and that the nurses make derogatory remarks about her. “I does be right here lying and hearing them talking all sorts of bad things about me. I just want to go home man. I just want to come out of here and go home,” she said.
One of the woman’s close friends, who has been by her side throughout the ordeal said she is also bleeding. “The nurses saying it was old people thing to sit over hot water after delivery so she never did it and now it’s causing complications because she is passing a lot of clots,” the friend added.
A relative told this newspaper that because of financial constraints they are unable to take Cummings to a private hospital. The relative said the family is distressed over the hardships the woman is enduring and they are particularly upset over reports that the nurses are ill-treating her. “It is really sad to know the people who should be showing love and care for her are telling her things like she got psychological problems and all sorts of ugly things. Even her pressure going up and down and they causing her to stress more,” the relative said.
A source close to the LHC said that the results from the investigations into the death of Cummings’s baby and on her condition have not been returned to the hospital. Efforts to confirm this with the LHC administration proved futile.
However, relatives say they are frustrated by the situation and are calling on the minister of health to investigate. “Even her children are taking it on. We don’t want to say certain things but we are praying that she recovers and that we can get help urgently for her,” another relative said, adding that the family believes that it was negligence by the hospital that has resulted in Cummings’s prolonged suffering.
In October 2010, Cummings was eagerly looking forward to holding her newborn baby in her arms when tragedy struck at the LHC resulting in a stillborn baby and Cummings suffering severe pelvic damage.
Cummings had told Stabroek News shortly after that she had spent several weeks at the LHC before she was discharged. “I am glad to be home with my children and family especially for the Christmas,” she had said during the festive season. She had started physiotherapy and was confident that she was going to get better and resume a normal life.
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i am so sorry for this woman and the pain she is face with everyday of her life.where is the ministry of health to look into these cases .time will tell |
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By:
mad about this
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2/15/2011 7:30:45 PM |
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I agree with lamp these nurses need ethics class. Its sad that when people get sick they are so scared to go to the hospitals in linden, because of the way they might be treated. Linden people need to come together and help each other and stop putting down each other. spend more time educating yourself about health issues and stop the gossip. |
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By:
kbredz
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2/13/2011 3:55:33 PM |
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nurses provide a necessary service to all, insted of bashing them to death maybe we should be looking for a solution to end this, maybe while in nursing school they include a class or two on ethics. or whatever |
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By:
lamp
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2/10/2011 4:31:37 PM |
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The doctors and nurses is to be blamed for all the crap that is happening in the hospitals, all they see is a pay check and nothing els. This is a round world we living in and what goes around will come around. So they better be careful of what they do. God is watching everyone of us. |
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By:
Anonymous
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2/10/2011 12:48:00 PM |
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The doctors and nurses is to be blamed for all the crap that is happening in the hospitals, all they see is a pay check and nothing els. This is a round world we living in and what goes around will come around. So they better be careful of what they do. God is watching everyone of us. |
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By:
Anonymous
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2/10/2011 12:48:00 PM |
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SO WHY ALL THE BLAME ON THE NURSES WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FREAKING DOCTORS?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? |
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By:
SMH
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2/10/2011 12:27:40 PM |
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...let them(so-called nurses) continue. time will tell..... |
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By:
vex like hell
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2/9/2011 4:31:19 PM |
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Sometimes you have to wonder, which nursing school did these nurses went to. Shame on all of you. |
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By:
Anonymous
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2/9/2011 12:22:02 PM |
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These nurses should find another job. A nurse should have respect for herself in order to extend respect to others. Money is not everything and that is what these nurses are seeing in the nursing world. Shame on all of you. |
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By:
a concered nurse
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2/8/2011 12:37:40 PM |
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its awful and unprofessional what goes on at the linden hospital---nurses where are yur honor--your compassion--yur dignity---lost i think--most of yu are there just for a paycheck ,--thats all the patients are to most of you,a paycheck--shameful!!!--i,m waiting for the day that this hospital is hit with a lawsuit--its wrong to gossip about your patients,,regardless of the situation they are in--i would not have some of yu take are of my dog--much less a family of mine---years ago when i was younger the nurses were much more compassionate and professional--it seems like now they are just a bunch of gossiping floosies--florence nightingale would be apalled and disgusted at some of you--remember that its bcuz of sick patients that yu nurses even get paid--no patients--no nurses--and one day it will be yur turn to lie on a sickbed--and when it does i hope yu get what yu are dishing out--for what goes around comes around---so please do the right thing--and respect the name yu bear!!!! NURSE--as far as i am conerned yu dont deserve it. |
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By:
disgusted lindener
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2/8/2011 8:39:52 AM |
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shame on the nurses of linden---Shame!!!!! |
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By:
concerned former lindener
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2/8/2011 8:27:43 AM |
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The doctors, nurses and hospitals should start getting sue for all the stupid things that is going on in those hospitals. Its a shame, how people get treated at these hospital. The worst thing about it, there is no kind of respect from the doctors and nurses. I hope some one do something about what is happening. |
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By:
concern guyanese
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2/7/2011 12:46:34 PM |
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It is a crying shame that this young woman has to have such a terrible experience due to the incompetence of those health care butchers in linden. Those nurses need to chill and act more professional instead of talking ill things about their patients they need to be more informed as to what steps can be taken to help this young woman.Without patients there is no need for nurses.Take a look at how many lives have been lost to incompetence over the last few months. Wake up empty head health care workers. One of these days you will be the patient,how would you like to be treated? |
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By:
concerned lindener living in the USA
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2/6/2011 10:26:38 AM |
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This is a sad situation, this poor woman is suffering. I hope an organization can step up after reading this article and go to this woman's assistance providing her with some financial assistance so she can consult with a Private Hospital. This hospital has some great nurses but I don't doubt for one second about these nurses sarcastic remarks. In 1984 while being a patient at the hospital , I was stuck wilfully by a nurse while she was hookin up an IV to my hand. When I complained the nurses had a laughing session for days on end making my stay miserable. I hope Mr. Gumbs investigate and do the necessary recommendations . |
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By:
Ann
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2/6/2011 6:57:31 AM |
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