MYSTERY DEATH

They are accusing personnel at that institution of giving them a run-around, misdiagnosis and bad treatment.

This is what they believe led to the death of a 31-year old Ministry of Agriculture employee, Keisha Howell, at the hospital on Saturday night after intense vomiting and abdominal pains for close to a week.

Her distraught brother, Kuzes, told Newsday yesterday, “If we were told exactly what was happening to our sister and we were able to get proper treatment then I am sure my sister may still be alive today. But with all this run-around, misdiagnosis and bad treatment at hospital with little care from the doctors, my sister is no longer alive today and we have no recourse.” The young woman’s tragic story began two Saturdays ago when she first complained about feeling unwell and started vomiting profusely.

Relatives, along with her boyfriend, Christopher John, took Howell to a private doctor, in St Augustine, who told relatives that she may have contracted Zika. The relatives were given a letter to go to the EWMSC for emergency treatment.

Relatives complied and, according to Kuzes, when they went to Mt Hope that Saturday there was “not even a wheelchair” to take his sister around, and when he asked for a bed for her, he was told that there was none available.

Kuzes said that when he complained to nurses that his sister was having problems breathing, he was told that there was nothing they could do.

According to Kuzes, his sister was given panadol and panadene and told to drink lots of coconut water and eat fruits.

However, when she returned home her condition did not improve. Kuzes said EWMSC personnel took a blood sample and said that her blood count was low and told them to come back on Monday.

Last Monday she was taken to a private doctor where she was given two injections.

According to Kuzes, his sister drank some more coconut water on Saturday, but by 8.30 pm she was dead.

John said that he is at a loss about the whole situation because his girlfriend was never an ill person nor one who ever complained about feeling unwell except for the common cold or flu. He said that everything happened so fast he is yet to understand exactly what transpired.

Yesterday an autopsy at the EWMSC revealed that Howell died from multiple organ failure. Primum Esse Executive Search in Vilnius, Lithuania, Baltics

The hospital did not reveal what prompted the multiple organ failure. Relatives were told that additional tests will have to be carried out to determine this.