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Foni
United Kingdom
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Momodou
Denmark
11634 Posts |
 Posted - 18 Nov 2013 : 20:16:34
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Shocking
Woman delivers on road outside Serekunda Health Centre
By Samba Bah
Foroyaa: Published on Monday, 18 November 2013
A pregnant woman in her late thirties and a resident of Kotu, who was experiencing the pangs of labour, was rushed to the Serekunda Health Centre on Sunday morning, yesterday, 17 November, but on arrival she was referred to the Serekunda General Hospital in Kanifing by a senior nurse on duty. According to an eye witness, the pregnant woman was escorted by her aunt and was told that the Health Centre is not the appropriate place for her to deliver her baby. The source explained that the moment the two left the gate of the Health Center, the woman started screaming and telling her aunt “please help me, the baby is coming”. “So the woman (aunt) held her hand and then asked her to sit down on the tar road, but before she could do so, the baby started to dangle and a woman nearby had to rush to grab what was coming out with head tie or veil.
The said woman then took the baby to the nurses inside and returned with a trolley to collect the mother,” the eye witness further explained. The eye witness said the woman was then placed on the trolley and rushed to the Labour Ward where she delivered her second twin baby.
As the health centre was close to a market place, many women assembled at the gate to express their outrage. They also approached prominent personalities in the area for assistance.
This reporter met a huge and agitated crowd at the gate of the health facility and state and council security personnel were deployed to diffuse the tension. He found some members of the crowd complaining about the poor service delivery and poor patient nurse relation.
They expressed their frustration that they are not treated with respect and given the respect due to this great service that women are doing for the nation and human kind. When this reporter approached the two nurses and one of the administrators to explain the circumstances leading to the problem, he was asked to wait for them for some time, but they later declined to speak to the press. One of the nurses did not also allow the press to interview the woman.
When the police arrived they asked all the non-hospital staff to leave the facility. The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Mr. Omar Sey, later arrived at the scene and after which the woman was taken on board a vehicle to the police station. The Minister of Health was heard saying that the Health Centre is a public facility and it is supposed to satisfy the needs of the patients.
“This act is complete negligence and therefore everybody should be changed with immediate effect, within twenty-four hours,” the Health Minister was heard saying.
Source: Foroyaa |
A clear conscience fears no accusation - proverb from Sierra Leone |
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Momodou
Denmark
11634 Posts |
Posted - 29 Nov 2013 : 22:54:59
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Attitudinal change is really needed...
3 more nurses in police custody for alleged complicity in infanticide
By Omar Wally
Daily Observer: Published on Friday, November 29, 2013
Barely two weeks after two nurses at the Serrekunda Health Centre were arrested and charged for their alleged involvement in a rare incident that forced a woman to deliver on the street, a new case has also emerged in Brikama Health Centre involving three others, the Daily Observer can authoritatively report.
Unimpeachable sources have told the Daily Observer that three female nurses (names withheld) were recently rounded up for their complicity and ‘negligence’ in the ‘avoidable’ death of a new born baby, who was reported to have fallen off the bed after delivery at the maternity ward.
Our source said on the 23rd November, one Binta Bah, a resident of Brikama Jamissa who was in labour went to the said health centre for delivery, and upon her arrival, she was examined and asked by the nurses on duty to stay outside since she was not due for delivery at that time.
“Binta then sat outside but was complaining of pains. Her escort told the nurses that she was complaining of pains but they insisted that she can’t be accommodated in the ward because it was not yet time for her to deliver. Binta’s escort however persisted and the nurses eventually allowed her and put her on a small bed where she delivered. She was left alone on the bed and gave birth on her own. Because she was unconscious after delivery, her baby suddenly fell off the bed and eventually died,” our source added.
Contacted to shed light on this new development, Police spokesperson, ASP David Kujabi confirmed the story and informed that the body is currently at mortuary for postmortem. He added that the police have since mounted an investigation into the matter.
Source: Daily Observer |
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30 Nov 2013 : 00:16:01
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| There needs to be a thorough investigation into Maternity care at Serkunda Health Centre, and those nurses need to be sanctioned to send out a message of zero tolerance to wilfull neglect in the Gambian Health Service. |
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30 Nov 2013 : 05:46:56
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There you go again Sister Omega. You always miss the point and you will never get it.
The nurse made a professional judgement that this young mother be referred to a hospital where she can access advanced care as a result of the supposedly advanced facilities and expertise at the said hospital. This was an emergency referral and an Ambulance should have been at hand to facilitate the patiant's transfer. Unfortunate, most if not all Health Centres in The Gambia today don't have Ambulances unlike during the First Republic when almost all centres including the one in your village of Ndugu Kebbeh have Ambulances. Thus, instead of harping blame on the nurses at this Health Centre, you should ask yourself whether the Health Centre is equipped enough to deal with emergencies including emergency referrals of this nature.
I think if you ask yourself that question, you will realise that the actual cause of this problem is not the nurses but the lack of Ambulance at the Health Centre.
Just in case you may want to argue that the woman would have still given birth before she get to the referral hospital even if there was an Ambulance. My response is that while that may be true, the woman would have nonetheless given birth in the privacy of an Ambulance and in the professional care of the escorting nurses.
Think straight and get your facts right.
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Edited by - Nyarikangbanna on 30 Nov 2013 07:59:39 |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30 Nov 2013 : 09:47:22
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THERE ARE TWO INCIDENTS AND FACTS OF BOTH INCIDENTS UNCLEAR. HOWEVER THE FIRST INCIDENT ANGER AGITATED BY FOLLOWING POINT NEWS REPORT;
Anger over woman left to deliver outside Serrekunda clinic
Monday, November 18, 2013
There was growing anger yesterday at the Serrekunda clinic, when women stormed the clinic to vent their anger over the attitude of two nurses, who reportedly left a woman to deliver outside of the clinic premises.
According to eyewitness accounts, the visibly angry women stormed the clinic after a pregnant woman who reported to the hospital, was asked by the nurses to go to the main Serrekunda Hospital in Kanifing, as they were taking their breakfast, only for her to give birth to twins just as she left the clinic.
Sources told The Point that the pregnant woman first reported to the clinic in the morning, but was told by the nurses to go to Kanifing, and she refused as she was in pain.
‘‘She went back to the clinic and reported again to the nurses, but they still insisted that she should go to Kanifing,’’ a source added.
According to our sources, when the woman reported for the third time, she was again asked to go to Kanifing, and as she tried to leave the clinic, she gave birth to her first child. This made the women around angry, and they reportedly attacked the nurses.
The second child was delivered after the woman was taken inside the clinic.
Our sources further told The Point that police later came in and took away the two nurses, who at the time of going to press were said to be held at the Kairaba Police Station.
Author: Halimatou Ceesay |
Edited by - kobo on 30 Nov 2013 09:52:09 |
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Momodou
Denmark
11634 Posts |
Posted - 30 Dec 2013 : 11:15:42
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Three nurses at Serrekunda Health Centre arraigned, charged
By Dawda Faye
The Point: Published Monday, December 30, 2013
(Friday, December 27, 2013 Issue)
Three nurses working at the Serrekunda Heath Centre, were on 24 December 2013 arraigned before Magistrate Tabally of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court for alleged neglect of official duty and abuse of office.
Awa Beyai, Awa Sanneh and Ndey Ceesay denied the allegations.
The particulars of offence in count one stated that on 17 November 2013, at Serrekunda Health Centre in the Kanifing Municipality, the accused persons employed in the public service as nurses and by virtue of that employment, neglected their official duty by failing to pay attention to a pregnant woman in the name of Isatou Sambou, which led to delivery of her baby in the street, and thereby committed an offence.
Count two stated that on the same date and place, the accused persons, while employed in the public service as nurses, abused their office by failing to attend to a pregnant woman in the person of Isatou Sambou, which was prejudicial to her right.
The prosecuting officer, Inspector Touray, rose and applied for an adjournment and objected to the granting of bail to the accused persons, because there was an ongoing investigation.
He addd that they needed the consent of the Attorney General’s Chambers for the accused persons to be prosecuted on count two.
He added that if the accused persons were granted bail, they would tamper with the investigation because the witnesses who would be called to testify would be coming from the Serrekunda Health Centre, and they would interfere with them.
He urged the court to grant his application.
Defence counsel Lamin S. Camara and Edward Singhateh represented the first and second accused persons. Lawyer Kebba Sanyang represented the third accused person.
In response to the prosecution’s application, Kebba Sanyang said that he was speaking on behalf of the accused persons. He stated that he was not objecting to the adjournment of the case. He said that on the issue of bail, it was trite law that the accused persons were presumed innocent until proven guilty, adding that the offences were misdemeanors, and are bailable offences.
Counsel further said that it was more than a month since the accused persons were alleged to have committed the offences, and they were granted bail by the police.
“Once a case is presented before the court, that is the end of the investigation,” he told the court.
He argued that this was why the prosecution prepared the charge sheet, adding that this showed that the prosecution had finished the investigation. He said since 17 November 2013, the accused were on bail by the police.
“This is mockery of justice,” he said, and that the courts are here to uphold the rights of accused persons, and they are supposed to enjoy their rights.
He urged the court to grant the accused persons bail, adding that the accused persons had never been in conflict with the law.
As regards count two, he applied for it to be struck out because it had been filed without the consent of Attorney General’s Chambers. He urged the court to strike out count two because it was incompetent.
In his ruling, Magistrate Tabally said the offences were bailable and the application made by the prosecution was not reasonable to warrant the accused to be remanded in custody. He struck out count two.
The magistrate granted the accused persons bail each in the sum of D100,000 with one Gambian surety, who should swear to an affidavit of means and deposit their ID cards with the court.
The case was adjourned to 20 January 2014, for hearing.
Source: The Point |
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