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MEDICAL COMPLAINTS COUNCIL CASES
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Mother awarded $1.6m in case against SWRHA
The South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) has been ordered to pay a little over $1.6 million in compensation to the mother of a welder, who died of complications related to a “flesh-eating bacteria” after being twice misdiagnosed at the Princes Town District Health Facility in 2014. High Court Judge Avason Quinlan-Williams found the SWRHA and by extension its staff negligent in Navin Singh’s death in February, but only assessed the compensation to be paid to his mother Bhagwantee Singh-Weekes, last Friday. Quinlan-Williams awarded her $35,000 for the pain and suffering her son endured for five days while doctors failed to diagnose...
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Public Health Regulations – MARTIN GEORGE – RISE AND SHINE
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Do you know your maternity rights?
Pregnancy can be a beautiful experience, but women may be concerned or uncertain about what benefits expectant working mothers are afforded under the Maternity Protection Act. Acting labour inspector II, of the Ministry of Labour and Small Enterprise Development’s Labour Inspectorate Unit, Mary Lyn Lewis-James told WMN the law provides protection for pregnant working women across the board. “It’s for all women in TT. Once you’re working, it doesn’t matter where you’re working. The Act covers you,” from the beginning to the end of pregnancy. The Act allows for pregnant women to take time off from work in order to get prenatal care....
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Judge finds SWRHA guilty of negligence
A high court judge has found the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) guilty of medical negligence in the death of 30-year-old Navin Singh. In a ruling on Friday at the San Fernando Supreme Court, Justice Avason Quinlan-Williams found the man was misdiagnosed and that doctors at the Princes Town Health centre did not carry out sufficient tests which would have shown that Singh had a flesh-eating bug and not sciatia. Singh died less than 48 hours after he was twice misdiagnosed by doctors at the Princes Town Health centre when he was actually dying from the flesh-eating bug virus necrotizing fasciitis. After...
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Autopsy on first-time mom shows 13 gallstones led to infection
Mon Apr 20 2015 An autopsy performed on the body of first-time mom Keisha Ayers has revealed had 13 gallstones in her bladder which caused an infection. It also revealed she developed blood clots. The autopsy was done yesterday at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex mortuary, Mount Hope. Relatives of Ayers' common-law-husband Juma Charles went to the hospital to identify her body and view the autopsy, as he was too distraught to even leave his Chennette Crescent, Santa Rosa Heights, Arima, home. The report revealed the cause of death was due to bilateral pulmonary thrombo-emboli; Deep vein thrombosis and cholelithiasis. A medical doctor, who...
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Permission to challenge Deyalsingh
Over 3,000 nurses have been granted leave to challenge the Health Minister’s decision to appoint selected members to the Nursing Council before any elected members were appointed. They were also granted permission to seek declarations that the decision of the minister to appoint David Murphy as a member of the council. The nurses were given permission to challenge the minister by Justice Devindra Rampersad. They are seeking several declarations which also ask the court to find that the minister’s decision to allow his six selected members to elect a president of the council and an executive when there are no other...
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Jamaica’s Mental Health Act To Be Amended To Meet International Standards (Click Here)
https://www.caribbean360.com/news/jamaicas-mental-health-act-to-be-amended-to-meet-international-standards...
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Wilson v. Medical Associates Ltd. and Dunn JM 2009 SC 59
Name of Case: Wilson v. Medical Associates Ltd. and Dunn JM 2009 SC 59 Type of Medical negligence: mental disability of minor Date of Judgment: June 18, 2009 Judge Presiding: King J Country: Jamaica Case Summary The claimant, Stephen Wilson, then five years old, underwent surgery at the Medical Associates Hospital which was operated by the first defendant. The second defendant, Dr. Brendan Dunn, was the anesthetist in attendance at the surgery. On completion of the surgical operation which was a circumcision, the claimant went into cardiac arrest resulting in severe brain damage. At the date of the trial Stephen was twenty-four years old and there has been no...
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