–about son’s mysterious death

A MOTHER is now seeking answers after her one-year-old son died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) on May 3, 2020 under mysterious circumstances.
The child’s mother, Noelene Williams, told the Guyana Chronicle on Friday that the toddler, Mikhel Wong-Singh, was first taken to the Diamond Hospital on the East Bank Demerara on April 24, 2020 for fever and breathing problems.

The family is apparently from Low Creek, on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway but lives at Agricola, on the lower East Bank Demerara.

She explained that the doctors at Diamond told her that her son’s tonsils were infected, and treated it orally with Cloxacillin Sodium and Paracetamol, but neither medication seemed to be of any help.

“My child getting more worse, and I took him back to Diamond Hospital on April 27 and the doctors said to me that medicine cannot work right away; how he have to drink out his treatment before he come back,” the distraught young mother said.

But after the child’s condition continued to worsen, she took him back to Long Creek so she could take him to the Health Centre there, and he was given more antibiotics and panadol syrup.

But again, his condition only worsened, so she made up her mind to take him to the GPHC.
When I take him there,” she said, “they carry me around to the Coronavirus Unit side, and the doctors examined him, and they give him a stronger dose of antibiotics.”

She said that the doctors at ‘Georgetown’ told her that if her son’s condition did not improve within two days, she should immediately take him back for treatment.
“Meh son still ain’t feeling good; he getting even more and more worst,” Noelene said.
But, for whatever reason, she took the child back to the Diamond Hospital and they admitted him on May 2.

“When they admit my son, we spent a night there,” she said. “They give him oxygen and saline; they run two tests on him, and they said nothing ain’t showing.”
That very morning, the toddler was transferred to the Georgetown Hospital, where he was subjected to a number of tests, among them blood work and X-rays.

Later in the evening, he was admitted into the facility, and tested for the coronavirus.
“They carried us to do the test, but nobody came to do the examination till around hours later, when my son began breathing hard,” Noelene said.

By then, he was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit, but died an hour later. She gave as the time of death around 14:00 hrs on May 3, 2020.
A distraught Williams believes that the first thing that the hospitals should have done was the coronavirus test.

“They waited till the last minute; they tell me they do all of the other test and nothing ain’t show,” Williams said.
According to the death certificate, the baby died of bilateral broncho-pneumonia, tonsillitis, acute gastroenteritis and anaemia.

Williams has since expressed dissatisfaction with the care given to her child, and is therefore calling for a thorough investigation.