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Nurse Suspended In Infant Death Case
posted (January 29, 2019)
On Friday, we had an update on the tragic case of baby Dion Woodeye Jr. He's the three month old who died on New Year's Day at the Corozal hospital - after receiving inadequate care for vomiting and diarrhea.

On Friday the CEO in the Ministry of Health declared that the death is the product of a failure of the system, where, health professionals quote, "don't care anymore."

And that, apparently, continued after the child's death - where the regional management for the north did not put the attending nurse on administrative leave. The CEO spoke bluntly about that as another failure on Friday. Here. again, are his remarks:

Dr. Ramon Figueroa - CEO, Ministry of Health
"Just yesterday we were discussing with the region that we expected that individual to be put on administrative leave. Why it hasn't happened, I'm not sure."

Reporter
"The reason why that persons didn't go on administrative leave, is this a lapse in some process or procedure that was supposed to have happened on the end of the Ministry?"

Dr. Ramon Figueroa
"That was a local decision that should have already been made. That was expected to have already been done already. We asked for a justification of why that wasn't done. I am still waiting for that response."

Well, we have an update tonight. After that public scolding for the regional manager, the nurse was placed on administrative leave as of yesterday pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation.

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