THE BACKLOG of medical reports at the Mandeville Hospital in Manchester is hampering Lenroy Spurgeon of Great Pond in the parish from getting a detailed report as to how his 27-year-old wife Rosemarie died in March
this year.
She died a few days after she gave birth to a healthy boy by Caesarean section.
Attorney-at-law Sean Clarke, who is representing Mr. Spurgeon, said yesterday that in March he wrote to the hospital for a copy of the medical record but so far he has not received it. He said Mrs. Spurgeon was discharged from the hospital after the baby was born but was readmitted a few days later because she was suffering from severe abdominal pains.
Mr. Clarke said he was at a loss as to how the medical record which could easily be photocopied and given to him could be taking so long. He said Mrs. Spurgeon died leaving a nine-year-old daughter and the baby boy.
FULL DISCLOSURE
The attorney said he had the death certificate which stated that Mrs. Spurgeon died from myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) and respiratory failure but he said the hospital administrators had a responsibility to make full disclosure to Mr. Spurgeon.
"We have a backlog of medical reports and are trying to clear up the backlog so that is what is taking it so long," Mrs. Z. Wallace, record administrator, said yesterday.
She was optimistic that Mr. Clarke would get the medical report tomorrow.
