Grief stricken Jacklyn Davis, mother of a three month old baby that died at the Rand Memorial Hospital last December, believes something could have been done to save her baby’s life.<\/p>\n
Davis is seeking answers as to what could have gone wrong in the two hours when she left the hospital, leaving behind a living child and on her return to be told that her baby had died.<\/p>\n
Davis, said her daughter, Jairiel Janaya Brooke Davis was her only child and this ordeal has been tough for her to cope with.<\/p>\n
“I had my baby on August 20 and she was born with a lung infection. She was treated for the infection for a month and they let her come home with me for two months until things started to change,” Davis maintained.<\/p>\n
“On November 27 I took her back to the hospital because she was wheezing and after the doctor saw her, they told me she wasn’t wheezing but she just had a cold.”<\/p>\n
Davis added that she was given a prescription to purchase Dimetapp to assist with the cold, however after some research, she realized that the medication is targeted to children six years and older.<\/p>\n
She also noted that her findings proved that side effects would increase mucus in the lungs.<\/p>\n
“Two days later, I took her back to the emergency room because she was unable too breathe well. They treated her and sent her to the Pediatric Ward for two days,” Davis claimed.<\/p>\n
It was then, Davis alleges that her baby caught a throat infection and after she seemingly was said to have gotten better by doctors, her health soon began to deteriorate.<\/p>\n
“The doctors told me that my daughter had a throat infection and it wasn’t life-threatening, but when they did an x-ray, the infection in her lungs was more intense,” she said.<\/p>\n
Davis claimed that she was told that her baby would have to go to the Princess Margaret Hospital Intensive Care Unit, however she later discovered that there were no vacancies.<\/p>\n
As the ordeal sadly dragged on, Davis said, she went to see her daughter who was still in hospital and was told that her baby’s health was improving.<\/p>\n
That, she added, was around 2:00 p.m. that afternoon.<\/p>\n
However, disaster struck at her return two hours later, when she was pulled into the doctor’s office only to be told that her daughter died.<\/p>\n
“They told me they were trying to revive her for an hour and they did not know how she died. They told me her heart just stopped,” Davis alleged.<\/p>\n
She claimed that when she received the death certificate, it stated that her daughter’s cause of death was bronchopneumonia, but doctors did not inform her of that condition.<\/p>\n
Davis said that the sorrowful matter was extremely tough for her to cope with and she hopes others wouldn’t have a similar experience, which has become the main reason she has broken her silence.<\/p>\n
The tearful maintains that it is her belief that something went terribly wrong with her child, and something could have been done to save her.<\/p>\n
When The Freeport News contacted RMH officials, no answers were said to be available because the case had been turned over to the hospital’s legal office in Nassau.<\/p>\n
The heart wrenching matter has sparked an interest in many as the number of infant deaths at the Rand Memorial Hospital is seemingly on the rise.<\/p>\n
Recently, parents Natalie and Owen Shepard shared their story when their baby girl, Colette Marie Una Shepard, died in August 2012 due to similar complications.<\/p>\n
The issue has definitely struck a chord amongst both families and answers are desperately sought to bring closure to the matter.<\/p>\n
Ashley Penn<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Grief stricken Jacklyn Davis, mother of a three month old baby that died at the Rand Memorial Hospital last December, believes something could have been done to save her baby’s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[334,81,20],"class_list":["post-30638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-children","tag-grand-bahama","tag-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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