Marina maternity victim�s family plans to sue
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | Thursday February 2, 2017 18:00
Now the parents are planning to take the legal route as Tsholofelo was the family breadwinner.
The deceased’s mother, Mmantsho Sefati disclosed that the family was in the process of suing the hospital and have made up their minds to meet with legal advisors “very soon”.
She believes if PMH medical staff had paid attention to her daughter’s cry for help, she could have lived.
She sadly recalled having just spoken with her daughter some hours before she was told she had died.
“She was complaining of a sharp pain that was piercing through her heart the previous night. In the morning of her fateful day, when I called her she said she was feeling better.
We agreed that I should check on her afterwards.
I was shocked when the doctor told us that she had passed on.”
Sefati said the doctor who was in charge that fateful day told them that her daughter had internal bleeding as she did not have postnatal menstruation after giving birth to her newborn baby. “We were told that PMH medical staff administered blood transfusion on her.
The doctor said the blood did not go through the veins and as a result flowed into her belly, which caused swelling.
He said as a result the blood caused big clots in Tsholofelo’s stomach where she felt the pain. He said that also resulted in her stomach swelling,” she said sadly.
Sefati said they were told that the big blood clot that some eye witnesses saw falling out of her daughter when she tried to walk to the bathroom was a result of the blood that could not flow out of her body due to complications during her caesarean section operation.
When shown her daughter’s medical report, Sefati said she was told the report of the night before she died was missing.
That is the same night an eyewitness said the deceased called one nurse who was on duty for help, but she refused.
She said they were told to avail themselves during the postmortem was done so that they could see what killed her daughter.
To her surprise, when they were about to go to the hospital, they received a call telling them that they should not come.
The deceased’s newborn baby was said to have remained at the hospital where she was put in intensive care as she had difficulty in breathing after birth.
“I believe that if PMH medical staff had heard my daughter’s cry when she told them about that pain she will be alive as we speak,” she reiterated.
“I don’t know how I will be able to take care of her newborn baby, as I am not working. Tsholofelo was the breadwinner,” she said, tears welling up in her eyes.
In an interview with the hospital’s chief communications and public relations officer, Donnell Kutlapye yesterday, he said the investigation is on going.
The 38-year-old Tsholofelo was buried early morning of Sunday last week in Mogoditshane.