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(Trinidad Guardian) A pregnant mother of two, who died in a coma medically caused by complications from swine flu, died.
Guardian Media has learned that its 38-year-old mother died Thursday night at the Mt Hope Medical Complex.
This newspaper highlighted the case two weeks ago and spoke with her husband.
He was not able to talk to the media on Friday and yesterday, just saying that he was "too stressed for the moment."
Guardian Media has learned that the woman had been kept isolated in the high-dependence unit (HDU) and that she was in a coma for medical reasons to better manage her swine flu symptoms and her pregnancy at the beginning of the quarter.
She was 15 weeks pregnant at the time of her death.
Communications from the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) confirmed Friday night's death in response to questions from Guardian Media.
At first, the NCRHA was unaware of the woman's death and denied that she had died.
A few minutes later, they sent a brief statement of confirmation.
"Yes, I can confirm that she died after a valiant attempt by our staff to save her life at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex HDU. The Authority is saddened by this loss and expresses its condolences to her family, "said NCRHA.
On January 12, Guardian Media spoke to her husband while he was visiting her at the hospital.
At that time, he hoped that she would recover and said that she was getting better.
We do not know what happened in the days that followed, but according to family members, she "took a turn for the worse".
At that time, the husband and father stated that when his wife was diagnosed with swine flu, the entire family was isolated and screened, but she was the only one to have a positive test result. .
He then stated that the entire family had collapsed emotionally when she had learned that she had swine flu. The news so annihilated her mother that she was hospitalized and died. The husband said he did not know for sure where his wife had contracted the disease because people close to their home in Arima were tested after the diagnosis, but no one else had swine flu. Two weeks ago, the Ministry of Health was on the alert after three deaths due to the disease.
Saturday, in an exchange of text on this particular case, the Minister of Health, Terrence Deyalsingh, warned this publication against the panic but did not say anything more.
Two weeks ago, he confirmed that there were about 17 confirmed cases in the country and that the ministry had ordered 25,000 additional vaccines because people were going to health centers to get vaccinated.
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