Man prepares to bury wife two days after baby daughter’s birth

Just two days ago, Dennis Stoll and his reputed wife Kendeka were at the Suddie Hospital, happily preparing to welcome a baby daughter into their small family.

Last weekend, Stoll was in the Bethany village burial ground preparing a tomb for his wife. Kendeka Abrams, 24, of Bethany Mission, Essequibo Coast, died in the Suddie Hospital’s operating theatre last Friday, after suffering severe haemorrhaging while delivering a full-term baby girl. Health officials are reportedly to investigate allegations that nursing staff at the Bethany Missionary, who referred Abrams to the Suddie Hospital, failed to indicate on the woman’s chart that she was a high-risk patient. Abrams, a mother of two, had bled heavily during her previous deliveries. Other complaints are that Abrams had told the lone nursing staff who was present during her delivery, of her history of postpartum haemorrhage; that the hospital had inadequate supplies of blood, and that the allegedly ill-prepared Suddie staff should referred Abrams to the Georgetown Public Hospital.

According to reports, only a midwife attended to her. She allegedly informed the midwife of her history of heavy bleeding. Dennis Stoll recalled later waiting outside the delivery room and hearing his wife’s screams, and shortly after, the cries of her newborn. “I ask (the nurse) if anything wrong and she said ‘no, just a little bleeding’”, Stoll said. On being reassured that his spouse was in no danger, Stoll, who was at the hospital with his mother, suggested that they go home and return the next day. “I said ‘let us go home, nurse say she alright.’”

This they did, but he said that, he received a call from someone who said that his wife was now in the operating theatre. What had reportedly occurred was that, as with the previous pregnancies, Abrams was again experiencing postpartum haemorrhaging. She was reportedly given three units of blood, but the hospital allegedly lacked an adequate supply of blood. After her condition worsened, she was rushed to the operating theatre, where she reportedly underwent a postpartum hysterectomy (surgery to remove the uterus following heavy bleeding).

(Kaieteur News)