Man dies 4 years after stabbing

Allan’s mother Glenda Quashie told Newsday on Tuesday that while the Barataria Police Station received a report Allan while he was hospitalised following surgery for the stabbing, “nothing was done.” She alleged that the person who stabbed her son is still around the El Socorro area.

In June 2002 Monsegue’s family was interviewed by Newsday because they were trying to raise money for him to have bowel transplant surgery in the US.

Monsegue was stabbed in the abdomen during an altercation with another man on April 27, 2002. He was sent to the Eric Williams Medical Science Complex (EWMSC) and surgery was done to repair the damage to one of the main arteries and the large intestine leading to the bowel.

However, after surgery Monsegue developed gangrene and a part of his bowel had to be removed. The prognosis from doctors was that he would have to be fed intravenously for “an indefinite period of time.”

Quashie said, “I look after that child until the day he died and I feel some justice should be done.”

She said Allan had to go to the hospital three or four times over the years, because after the operations he frequently got infections.

Although the surgeries were done at EWMSC, Quashie said when he was taken to the Adult Priority Care Facility at Mt Hope, he was referred to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (PoSGH).

Quashie said last Wednesday, Allan was taken to PoSGH because he was experiencing abdominal pains. He was subsequently kept at Ward 21. Two days later he was transferred to the EWMSC.

Quashie said, “PoSGH said he had his surgery in EWMSC and they knew of his feeding. At PoSGH he was clean and they regularly checked on him.”

Last Saturday Quashie visited her son and was surprised by his condition.

“I found him in blood with his hands tied. The nurse said he pulled out the tubes.”

Quashie said Allan was left overnight without feeding or tubes to “clean out his inside.” She said a nurse told her he was sedated and she was waiting for the doctor to put back the tubes.

When Quashie went to EWMSC on Sunday, she said Allan was clean and a doctor reattached the IV tube in his arm, and stomach. Quashie said during her visit Allan stopped breathing and oxygen had to be pumped into him. She complained, “They knew he was critical and waited until after 4 pm to take him to the Intensive Care Unit.”

Quashie said the hospital called her after 8 am on Labour Day to tell her Allan had died at 7.45 am.

“This is a child that went into Mt Hope with a stab wound. He was 180 pounds, a healthy child and that was what became of him. He was less than 100 pounds.”

Quashie said her son never benefited from Public Assistance because forms taken to EWMSC were never signed.

She said the reason given was that the doctor was not there and “they don’t know when he is coming.”

Quashie said Allan never got over the stabbing.