Ja-Cayman heart surgery MOU leaves parents, doctors overjoyed
LATHEVA JAMES and the rest of her family are nervous yet overjoyed as they prepare to travel with threeyear-old Lashell Campbell to the Health City Hospital in the Cayman Islands, where the younger is to undergo heart surgery.
Campbell is among three babies from the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) who will benefit from heart surgeries through a memorandum of understanding between the Government/BHC and Health City. BHC is at this time unable to undertake a large number of heart surgeries due to limited Intensive Care Unit capacity and general resource constraints.
James, who is Lashell’s aunt, told The Gleaner that it is a great feeling to know that her niece will have a chance to live a normal life.
A LITTLE NERVOUS
“I am a little nervous. I was worried and her mom was worried also. Both of us break down in the house couple days ago crying, but Lashell is a baby who nuh mek nutten bother her. She will often say, ‘Auntie, don’t worry about anything. God is going to heal me. I’m going to do my surgery and they going to cut my heart, open it, fix it, put it in back and I come home’. She is not scared at all,” she declared.
“We are praying for her and everyone who is going to do the surgery because we need God to be in control. We don’t want to lose our children, and I thank the doctors. We are expecting the best.”