A 19-YEAR-OLD resident of West Ruimveldt, who had been battling with lymphatic disorder for most of her life, has succumbed, and according to her father, doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital are to be blamed.Crystal Gibson, who had been coping with the disease since three years old, died on Monday October 17.

However, shortly after laying her to rest, her father Obed Gibson told Guyana Chronicle that her life was cut short by the doctors at the GPHC. He explained that after attending the Medical Clinic at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Friday October 14, she was admitted into the hospital because her kidney was failing.

Gibson said that upon admitting his daughter, the doctor (name given) had explained that it was important for the 19 year old to be placed on the dialysis machine given the severity of her illness.

“Friday nothing happened, Saturday nothing, Sunday nothing. Just after lunch Sunday, she call me saying daddy I vomiting blood, I can’t urine, I can’t do nothing,” he recalled.

However, it was not until Monday October 17, at around 17:30h that the West Ruimveldt resident was placed on the machine. But according to Gibson by then, it was too late. “Her body started rejecting the saline, start rejecting the blood, rejecting the dialysis,” he explained.

At around 22:15h on Monday, Gibson said he received a call from his daughter, stating that they had removed the oxygen mask from her face. “She said daddy I can’t make it, I can’t make it.” Those were the last words spoken to him by his daughter. She subsequently died.

Now, Gibson is of the opinion that had his daughter received urgent medical attention she would have been alive today. “Is negligence nothing but negligence. If you want dead fast go public hospital,” he opined.

He said to compound the situation, when a request was made to have his daughter’s medical record, he was met with major objection from the doctor, who reportedly said that an application must be first made before the documents can be released.

“What they trying to do, is cover it up. I ain’t make no complaint because if I do, they will say they will launch an investigation and then they will cover up any mistake but is negligence killed my daughter,” he maintained.