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Sources said the team of doctors, in a panic, failed to perform surgery on the baby to stop the bleeding, despite pleas for them to do so from the specialist obstetrician who made the laceration to the baby\u2019s head when he cut too deep into Cottle\u2019s womb before removing the baby. The source said after the baby was born and the obstetrician saw the cut, he referred the baby to a junior paediatric officer who in turn gave the baby to a paediatric surgeon, also a junior doctor, who turned the baby over to a junior neurosurgical doctor.<\/p>\n The source claimed the neurosurgeon decided not to operate on baby Simeon, who continued to bleed from the head wound. \u201cAll this time, the specialist doctor who performed the C-Section was begging the RHA staff to perform surgery to save the baby\u2019s life, but everyone was running around and passing the baby off to each other, not wanting to take responsibility in trying to save the baby\u2019s life,\u201d the UWI source claimed.<\/p>\n Contacted yesterday, Cottle said she was unsure of the time lapse when doctors returned her child\u2019s body to her. Cottle was placed under regional anaesthesia for the surgery, which meant while she felt no pain, she would have been awake and aware of her surroundings.<\/p>\n The baby\u2019s father, Emil Millington, said he is unaware of this latest development and asked, \u201cwhat do we have here then? Murder or manslaughter?\u201d<\/p>\n Millington also said they are expected to receive the result of a second autopsy today. \u201cSomebody from the hospital called and said to come for the report tomorrow. They can\u2019t stand me down anymore, how much more stand down they could give me,\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n Millington said they were advised by their attorney Colin Selvon not to make any funeral arrangements until they get the report and to only do so if they are satisfied with the findings. If they are not satisfied, they should be prepared to have a third autopsy done.<\/p>\n \u201cThe hospital offered me counselling, but I told them I don\u2019t need that, I need anger management because I\u2019m becoming more and more angry everyday,\u201d the frustrated father said. Millington said it was a difficult time for the entire family, more so his wife.<\/p>\n \u201cShe said when the baby was born, the doctor did not have to do anything with the baby, he was crying on his own. She knew she gave birth to a live baby who died because of carelessness. That is something that will ring through her for the rest of her life,\u201d Millington told Newsday.<\/p>\n It was reported that the doctor, who had only recently received his specialist paediatrician licence and is MRCOG certified, performed the surgery with no consultant present. The UWI source placed the blame for the baby\u2019s death squarely on NCRHA staff present in theatre and not the UWI consultant who was not present.<\/p>\n The baby\u2019s death is now the subject of high level investigations involving internal probes by the NCRHA, the Medical Council and an investigation that will be led by a foreign specialist, the latter probe being ordered by Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan.<\/p>\n The specialist doctor who performed the C-Section has since been sent on leave with basic pay while investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n The UWI source accused persons within the NCRHA of leaking information to the media in an attempt to cast blame on a UWI-employed lecturer\/consultant who was not present at the surgery.<\/p>\n However, the source said the Ministry of Health regulations make it clear that a consultant does not automatically have to be present at a C-Section surgery.<\/p>\n The source said the onus was on the specialist doctor to oversee the surgery while the consultant was there only in an advisory capacity. He said persons within the RHA have sought to paint UWI and its Department of Medical Sciences as being laws unto themselves.<\/p>\n Source: http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,191857.html<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ALIVE FOR 5 HOURS By Carol Matroo March 14, 2014 – newsday.co.tt BABY Simeon lived for five hours after he was delivered from his mother\u2019s womb in a Caesari an section surgery at Mt Hope Women\u2019s Hospital on March 1. However, he bled to death from a cut to his head sustained during his mother, … Continue reading Baby Simeon Alive for 5 Hours<\/span> 
<\/a>BABY Simeon lived for five hours after he was delivered from his mother\u2019s womb in a Caesari an section surgery at Mt Hope Women\u2019s Hospital on March 1. However, he bled to death from a cut to his head sustained during his mother, Quelly Ann Cottle\u2019s surgery, a laceration that was deep enough to penetrate the brain tissue.<\/p>\n
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\nAs a team of junior doctors failed to seek the advice of senior doctors on how to stop the bleeding, the baby bled to death as he lay in a cot in the nursery. This was the claim made by a source from the University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine yesterday.<\/p>\n