Pregnant woman, 43, unborn child die at GPH
A 43-year-old pregnant woman and her unborn child died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) early Wednesday morning. Gladice Rodrigues, of Alliance Road, Timehri, East Bank Demerara, who was already a mother of five, was due to deliver this month. According to a source from the Ministry of Public Health, the GPH has launched a full investigation into the woman’s death.
The hospital had been forced to launch a similar investigation last week when a 17-year-old died after she had given birth via caesarean-section. Rodrigues, according to the source, arrived at the GPH’s Accident and Emergency Unit at 12.35 am on Wednesday and was declared dead by a doctor.