By Fareeza Haniff
Omawattie Samaroo and her baby girl following her delivery.
[www.inewsguyana.com] – For several months, Omawattie Samaroo was convinced by doctors that she was pregnant with twins, but on the day she gave birth, via caesarean, she awoke to be greeted by one baby with no pliable explanation from doctors at the Anamayah Memorial Hospital on the whereabouts of her other child.
This has since left the puzzled mother with more questions than answers, since it was the same private health institution which advised her that she was pregnant with twins and even treated her accordingly during her pregnancy.
Samaroo is a mother of a 16 – year – old child and hails from Number 2 Village, East Canjie, Berbice. She has since provided documentation, which shows “both fetuses with good weight and size for gestational age…twin pregnancy with 36 weeks X LMP.”
iNews understands that four ultrasounds were done, revealing that she should expect twins, but now the doctors at the hospital allegedly told her they made a mistake and that “something was wrong with the machines.”
Samaroo’s mother, Sunita Devi told iNews during a telephone interview on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 that the doctors at the hospital informed her daughter during her second visit that she is pregnant with twins and gave her medication so that the babies would develop properly.
Devi explained that one of the Cuban doctors at the hospital even congratulated the mother and showed her the babies’ heartbeats. According to the woman, the family eventually met with Dr Adrian Anamayah, who also congratulated them on the twins, revealing that one weighed 5 ¾ pounds and the other, 5 pounds and some ounces.
Devi told iNews that the doctors were only able to determine the gender of one of the twin, claiming that the other baby was in a difficult position; preventing them from determining its gender.
The woman further explained that a decision was then taken to have September 12 be the date for the caesarean; a day which proved to be rather traumatic for the family.
“Me and she husband sit down and ah wait now…while waiting, me hear wan baby holla…so me see the nurse and everybody busy, busy and meh show them sign ‘wuh happen?’ but dem’ nah badda to me; all me hear wan nurse on the phone telling somebody, ‘you have to be here very fast, hurry, hurry the driver coming fuh yuh,” Devi told iNews.
She further revealed, “So now me see the man move towards a red car and in ten minutes he come back with the doctor that do the ultrasound and they gone in a room so now them come outside and call me…three doctors and me and meh Son-in-Law and one of the nurse and dem’ nah say anything, so me get scared now because me seh something happen to me data; so me seh doc wuh happen…he said nothing to worry about because there was only one baby.”
According to Devi, the family became confused and was invited into Dr Ramayah’s office, where they questioned what happened with the other twin.
The woman claims that Dr Ramayah allegedly told them that he did not know what happened.
“So I don’t know what really happened…they keep saying it’s only one baby and they put it [the blame] on the machine,” a frustrated Devi said.
Devi feels that something went wrong during the C-Section, which might have harmed one of the babies and accused the hospital of trying to cover it up.
“To me thinking, me feel if the baby bin born and one dead, they would have give us the baby, but me feel…that when they cut she that day, they cut the baby and if they show us, them know is them fault and it gon be dangerous for them; that is my opinion,” Devi said.
Hospital denies wrongdoing
Meanwhile, iNews contacted Dr Adrian Anamayah, who in a written response, clarified that there was nothing sinister about the delivery of the baby, pointing out that the woman never carried twins.
“The patient never carried twins and did not deliver twins. There was a misunderstanding/misdirection with respect to the interpretation of the ultrasound,” the doctor told iNews.
He further noted that the Hospital Administration spoke to the mother and the family at length and explained all that transpired.
“…They were satisfied with the explanation. No Baby was stolen, No baby died. It is unfortunate that some individuals with ulterior motives have resorted to the social media to spread misinformation and make unfounded and damaging allegations against the Hospital,” Dr Anamayah said.
He believes that there is a “politically motivated attempt to besmirch the good name of the Hospital.”
“It is also unfortunate that what appears to be the patient’s medical information is being made public by these individuals,” he concluded in his statement.
