Stewart could have lived with immediate care – Family insists
Stewart, fondly known as 'Annette', 48, a native of Dominica, died on Monday June 20, 2016 while at the territory’s lone hospital. It was reported on two other online news sites the woman was made to wait for 'hours' after arriving at the hospital with chest pains and subsequently died before she could have been attended to.
In fact, a close family friend of Stewart, who had accompanied her and Stewart's mother to the hospital, told Virgin Islands News Online that the woman had to be taken into the facility in a wheel chair and it was conveyed to the personnel at the registration booth that the woman was having difficulties breathing.
"They still took all the time and register her and put her in the waiting area. They did not take her in right away although they were told she was not breathing properly. It was hours after she started to collapse that they rushed to her. And when they started inserting the tube down her throat it wasn't going down because she had done start stiffening out on them," said the upset family friend.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the BVI Health Services Authority, Bishop John I. Cline on June 22, 2016 had blasted as “inaccurate”, reports by the two online news sites that a woman died at Peebles Hospital while waiting for medical attention.
Post Mortem results
Word reaching this news site yesterday July 13, 2016 from a close relative is that, following autopsy, it was discovered that Stewart died as a result of a clot that travelled to her lungs and had she received timely care death could have been avoided.
On the other hand, the relative said they were told by persons attached to Peebles Hospital that Stewart had a slim chance at living due to her condition at the time of arriving to the medical facility.
Bishop Cline had previously told this news site that upon learning of the case he immediately went to the institution where he was briefed even as an active thorough investigation was in effect and it was then he was informed that the patient died during the course of receiving care as opposed to reports that she died while awaiting care.
Cline had also promised that he would have furnished this news site with the findings of the investigations days after, however, no report has been forthcoming weeks now.
27 Responses to “Stewart could have lived with immediate care – Family insists”
Remember Bosh from the Miami Heat, he too has blood clots, and he is very much alive.
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