The news two women died last month soon after giving birth at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) should be of concern to all Barbadians. While these two maternal deaths were widely reported in the mainstream media there have been many others that have been kept hush hush in recent years. In the interest of transparency we are asking the QEH authorities to explain why two women are dead who should be home nursing their babies.
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Its here already Sarge
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/01/16/zikas-here/
Can the Zika virus really be responsible for a very sudden appearance of shrunken brains in South American newborns?
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UPDATE: REFERENCES WHICH PROVE THE SHRUNKEN BRAINS ARE Tdap VACCINE CAUSED AND NOT BECAUSE OF ANY ZIKA VIRUS ARE NOW SCREEN CAPTURED AND EMBEDDED BELOW THIS REPORT, (and there are plenty of other references that prove this if you go out an look for them.)
Tdap induced shrunken brains: The new autism.
The new “Autism”, titled “Microcephaly” has suddenly smashed it’s way into delivery rooms overnight and destroyed more than 2,400 Brazilian newborn babies en utero in only the past 2 months with ZERO DESTROYED IN THE MONTHS PRIOR. The false reason is stated to be caused when a pregnant mother is bitten by the mosquito carried African zika virus, which recently “made it’s debut” in Brazil in 2015. This is an obvious bold faced lie, because the pattern of symptoms does not match the virus which has been proven to have infected humans since 1954 and has never previously been associated with shrunken brains in newborn babies, nor does the geographic propagation pattern match the natural propagation pattern of a mosquito carried virus that would cause undersized brains in newborn babies if it really did exist.
This “shrunken brain” issue in newborns was just suddenly in Brazil as if someone flipped a switch, and the only way that could really happen is via the sudden arrival of a new brain destroying Tdap vaccine, which all pregnant Latin American women are strongly encouraged to get before week 22 of pregnancy. This sudden occurrence of shrunken brains perfectly matches the probable arrival of the real culprit – a tainted Tdap vaccine, which if administered in May (when this virus supposedly arrived) would be causing precisely the shrunken newborn baby brain problems Brazilians are having now, right on schedule.
@Green Monkey
Are you inferring that ‘’T’dap” is the new Thalidomide?
Follow de money.Zika found in Brazil.Zika in Brazil .Zika found in the Caribbean in the Dominican Republic.AmBev in the Dominican Republic.Zika found in Barbados.AmBev in Barbados.What a coincidence of events.
………Zika found in Brazil.AmBev in Brazil………..
@Gabriel
Please share the research methodology used to inform your conclusion and the academic journal it was submitted for peer review.
Green Monkey January 16, 2016 at 6:38 AM #
Can the Zika virus really be responsible for a very sudden appearance of shrunken brains in South American newborns?
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Then it would appear that we have had the Zika virus in this country for the past 8 years.
BU sharpnoass today.Allya hot hot.
Barbados has recorded its first cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
A release from the Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS) late today quoted the Ministry of Health as confirming three cases of the disease
Here come the conspiracy theorists.
I am sometimes tempted to believe in conspiracy theories but THEY won’t let me.
THE FOLLOWING ARE QUESTIONS ASKED YESTRDAY BYGeorgie Porgie January 15, 2016 at 12:40 PM #
MAY I HUMBLY ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS FROM MY VERY LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF THESE TINGS
1 is it not true that women have been dying in childbearing for time immemorial? YES
2 are we saying that no woman should die in childbearing today, or at the QEH? IT CANT BE HELPED SOME TIMES
3 is it at all possible that the deaths of the women could have been caused by their own negligence? YES. A very common cause of deaths of women in childbearing is their own negligence
4 do hospital aquired infections only occur at QEH NO hospital aquired infections IS UBIQUITOUS
5 ARE drug resistant bacteria ONLY TO BE FOUND AT QEH? OR IS THIS A WORLDWIDE PROBLEM? SEE ABOVE
6A RE we do not have the actual figures of the number of women who died at the QEH in recent times.
ACTUALLY THIS NUMBER IS KNOWN TO WHOM IT CONCERNS
6B actuallyI believe this information should be made public. There may very well be a growing trend that needs to be diagnosed and corrected………….diagnosed and corrected BY WHOM. TH PUBLIC? NO BU MEDICAL ILLITRATES WILL diagnose and correct THE PROBLEMS EVEN THEY DO NOT HAVE A CLUE ABOUT BASIC OBSTETRICS OR THE CAUSES OF MATERNAL DEATHS. Ah lie?
7 what is the bigger story to be told about the two maternal deaths? WE ARE STILL WAITING TO HEAR WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THESE DEATHS. MAYBE THERE IS A CONSPIRACY HERE
8 RE I agree that data should be public because it would allow us to assess the level and complexity of the problem. HOW? WHO IS US?
BU MEDICAL ILLITRATES WOULD BE ABLE TO assess the level and complexity of the problem.EVEN THEY DO NOT HAVE A CLUE ABOUT BASIC OBSTETRICS OR THE CAUSES OF MATRNAL DEATHS. Ah lie?
9 WHEN THERE HAVE BEEN / ARE MATERNAL DEATHS AT QEH HAVE THERE NOT BEEN ” a thorough investigation done” YES. ALL MATERNAL DEATHS ARE FULLY INVESTIGATED.
10 WHO SHOULD ” the findings released” to? BU MEDICAL ILLITRATES SO THEY CAN SPEW HOT AIR BOUT THINGS THEY KNOW NUTTIN BOUT. Ah lie?
GP good information but dont expect the politicos to be happy or approved of your comments
Remember the 2018 election is right around the corner and truth and Facts will be the first casualties on their hit list
Simple Simon January 15, 2016 at 10:17 PM # ASKED
Devid you asked “HOW DID TWO WOMEN DIE AT THE QEH?”
I do not know.
Do you?
ANSWER
David January 15, 2016 at 3:33 PM #
Hypothetically a pregnant woman goes to the bathroom unattended and it takes a while for duty nurses to realise and in the process something bad happens and the baby has to be taken as a result
in the process something bad happened THE LADY HEAR THAT SHE MAN HORNING SHE BAD
THIS LED TO SEVERE ACUTE PET FOLLOWD BY SEVERE POST PARTUM HEMORHAGE AND CONCOMITANT ESCALATING DIC
WUH YOU TINK SIMON?
TO ALL CONCERNED
SOMETHING BAD HAPPEN IS NOW A RECOGNIZED {BY BU DAVID ONLY-) CAUSE OF A MOTHER DYING IN CHILD BIRTH
JUST DONT CITE THIS CAUSE IN YOUR OBSTETRIC EXAMS OR EMPOLY SAME IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
i got a better one than that a woman goes to the hospital bathroom unawares she is pregnant goes to pee and in the process a baby drops out in the toilet What happen next is a cause of concern david wuh u think ?
AC YOU GOT TO GET THAT ALICIA TO TELL YOU BOUT THE STATISTICS THERE AND IF THE WOMAN CAN SUE FOR NEGLIGENCE……..MURDAH
ac January 16, 2016 at 7:37 PM #
i got a better one than that a woman goes to the hospital bathroom unawares she is pregnant goes to pee and in the process a baby drops out in the toilet What happen next is a cause of concern david wuh u think ?
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If the hospital was located in St Joseph,the parish, that would be not a problem.
BUGGY MA BOY
ARE YOU SAYING THAT THY WONT BE ANY WATER IN DE TOILET?LOL
i proffer to say the baby dead or alive owes an explanation from the hospital David wuh yu think
i read an article where a lady was on a flight goes to the bathroom and out pops a bouncing baby girl , the lady says that she had visited several doctors after she started getting unusually fat but when the doctors did pregnancy test the test came back negative
Should the doctors be sue?
United States has issued a health advisory for Barbados apparently shrunken brains seem to be running rampant among DLP voters.
@ac January 16, 2016 at 11:37 PM “i read an article where a lady was on a flight goes to the bathroom and out pops a bouncing baby girl , the lady says that she had visited several doctors after she started getting unusually fat but when the doctors did pregnancy test the test came back negative. Should the doctors be sue?”
The lady was no lady. She was a lying woman. Doctors don’t do “pregnancy tests to se whether a 9 month pregnant woman is pregnant. Doctors actually touch the wooman’s abdomen, and the infant can be clearly felt. Pregnancy tests what?
WHEN CERTAIN MORONS COME HERE CASTING ASPERSIONS ON NURSING CARE THY SHOULD READ STUFF LIKE THIS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT NURSES GO THROUGH WHEN THEY ARE SHORT STAFF AND IN TIMES OF CUT BACKS
Reduce nurse burnout by treating nurses as well as we treat patients
COLIN BAIRD | POLICY | JANUARY 15, 2016
One of my most memorable experiences was more than a decade ago while working for a level one trauma center on the East Coast. I was sitting in a hospital break room during one of my breaks as an inventory coordinator when a nurse walked in. I simply asked how her day was going, and she fell into the chair next to me crying.
Surprised by her reaction, I asked, “What’s going on?” She replied, “I just lost my third patient today.”
The impact of her personal experience stuck with me. Even now, looking back, I can’t help but think how difficult a day it must have been for her. Until that moment, my only experience with nursing had been as a patient.
Seriously injured while serving on active duty it was a nurse who saw me first, and it was a nurse who discharged me from the hospital. It was a nurse who was responsible for all of my care. Like an air traffic controller, it was a nurse who coordinated my care as well as the care of many others.
What I didn’t know at the time, but more than a decade later I would learn: the most overwhelming parts of nursing are the constant system failures. More than 30 percent of nursing time is spent hunting, fetching and clarifying work not patient care. This is not the cause of any one person or processes patient care has just evolved this way over time.
Fast forward more than decade and those experiences of stress and disappointment still exist for nurses. The reality here is that health care organizations/hospitals (HCOs) function in a way that requires nurses to focus more of their limited time and attention diagnosing systems needs rather than focusing on patients care. Nurses scrambling for linen, supplies, equipment or waiting to clarify a medication prescription are just a few examples. It’s all the unrelated system needs and its failures, not patient care, that adds real cost.
Overburdened, a single nurse could be caring for as many as five to six patients struggling in a system that’s failing him/her. In recent years, the cost of health care has gotten a great deal of attention and with good reason. Between 2000 and 2007 health care spending grew at nearly six percent per year, a much steadier growth rate than inflation or wage growth.
Future health care costs have even been a security concern — increases in health care spending are and will increasingly take money away from military readiness. Many scandalous stories about the costs of health care have been told. And while we share Americans’ outrage at the cost of health care, there is some good news on the cost front: health care spending has been leveling off in recent years.
Progress on the cost of health care notwithstanding, there is a serious scandal in health care — the toll that health care takes on the people who deliver it. The burdens of regulation, cost reductions, and quality initiatives piled onto nurses and other clinicians are undeniable. The biggest current and future risk to health care is shortages of nurses and doctors.
Especially in nursing, there is growing evidence that the job people are asked to do is unreasonable and consequently moving people out of the profession; emerging shortages are weighing down further the workload and feasibility of already overworked doctors and nurses. In a recent study of forty hospital units, more than one-third of nurses reported they intended to leave their position within the next year; sighting emotional exhaustion and lack of personal accomplishment, two key indicators of nurse burnout.
And as growing evidence has shown, nurse burnout dramatically influences how satisfied patients are with their care. The performance of nurses and their impact on quality is determined by many factors. In the end, though, all research on the quality of nursing care either concludes the absolute necessity of support departments providing nurses with what they need, or assumes that these departments will do so.
Put another way, treating nurses as customers is at the heart of all work on the quality of patient care by nurses. Efficiency — how hospitals must operate — will loom large as the Affordable Care Act is rolled out and sequestration cuts continue. Efficiency will equal profitability; without it continued financial pressures will mount. Leaving only two choices for hospitals: open or closed.
Simple Simon January 17, 2016 at 7:02 PM #
@ac January 16, 2016 at 11:37 PM “i read an article where a lady was on a flight goes to the bathroom and out pops a bouncing baby girl , the lady says that she had visited several doctors after she started getting unusually fat but when the doctors did pregnancy test the test came back negative. Should the doctors be sue?”
The lady was no lady. She was a lying woman. Doctors don’t do “pregnancy tests to se whether a 9 month pregnant woman is pregnant. Doctors actually touch the wooman’s abdomen, and the infant can be clearly felt. Pregnancy tests what?
NEGATIVE PREGNANCY TESTS FOR NINE MONTHS? MAYBE SHE DIDNT GO TO ANTENATAL CARE
ON SURE WAY FOR “SOMETHING BAD” TO “HAPPEN” IS TO FAIL TO GO FOR ANTENATAL CARE
YOU ARE QUITE CORRCT SIMON, DRS AND MIDWIVES CAN BALLOT TH BABY EASILY AT NINE MONTHS AS THE BABY HAS BY THEN ARISEN OUT OF THE PELVIS
Simple Simon are u sure that the woman was lying?
ac January 18, 2016 at 1:27 PM #
Simple Simon are u sure that the woman was lying?
MOST CERTAINLY
THE HISTORY DOES NOT MAKE CLINICAL SENSE
SIMON IS OBVIOUSLY A NURSE AND IS TALKING FROM EXPERIENCE
ALSO NEGATIVE PREGNANCY TESTS FOR NINE MONTHS? NOT LIKELY
Look GP in the article a doctor in the article. Dr. Gil Weiss assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Northwestern University and an ob-gyn in Chicago says it can happen..
I DONT CARE IF AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN TOLD YOU SO
A PREGNANCY TEST REFLECTS THE LEVEL OF HCG IN THE BODY
VERY UNLIKELY THAT ONE WILL GO NINE MONTHS WITH A NEGATIVE PREGNANCY TEST
THE ONLY PLACE THAT WILL HAPPEN IS ON BARBADOS UNDERGROUND
BY TH WAY ANY TWIT WHO TEACHS IN THE US IS AN ” assistant professor ” hE MIGHT JUST HAVE FINISHED A RESIDENCY
GP Can the following explanation be a reason why the pregancy can go undetected
A baby that produces a scant amount amount of HCG might go “under the radar,” failing the pregnancy test and going undetected by the mother. When a fetus doesn’t put out much HCG, he or she also gets fewer resources. This explains why these babies are so often small for their age and are born preterm and underweight.
the HCG is produced by the placenta not the baby
HCG levels do not affect the issues you cite
the issues you cite are maternal………like drinking alcohol or taking drugs in pregnancy, poor diet especially lack of iron and B vitamins etc
here is the link to the story
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/woman-who-gave-birth-on-plane-didnt-know-she-was-118795144307.html
ac January 18, 2016 at 6:19 PM “GP Can the following explanation be a reason why the pregancy can go undetected. A baby that produces a scant amount amount of HCG might go “under the radar
I don’t know if you have ever been pregnant ac, but I have been. From the “quickening” on one can practically feel the baby “walking ’bout in one’s belly”.
Women who deliver a full term baby and then say “I didn’t know that I was pregnant invaribly have “issues”
look Simple Simon it is as simple as this! ac reads an article makes reference to what is said in the article now you want to test my knowledge or lack thereof about pregnancy ac is not the subject matter so do not display arrogant behavior in similar vein like other ignoramus on Bu who side step the issue and go on the attack of ac! whether i was pregnant or not would not be sufficient scientific proof to prove this woman story,
there is a link to the article you can read it , i am not a ob gyn all ac did was cite an article
Google is your best friend. Use Google and read the followup articles.
The father of the baby was unemployed.
The mother was employed only in a part time job.
Notwithstanding they decided to go on a holiday to a distant land.
After the baby was born a gofundme site to set up to collect $50,000 Canadian dollars to “help with the baby’s birth expenses”. The couple then claimed that they had no idea how gofundme works.
Remember as well that Canada is a world leader in communications technology and that free public libraries are open 7 days per week.
Remember as well that Canada has a pretty well funded social welfare system, and that unemployed or minimally employed parents of infants can receive substantial social assistance so that neither the parents nor the baby will be homeless or hungry.
Remember as well that the unemployment rate in Canada is always in the single digits.
So what was the $50,000 Canadian dollars for?
Bear in mind that Canada has an excellent tax payer funded health care system.
A pregnant mother can make as many doctor’s visits as required at no cost to herself.
Canadian medical schols are excellent.
It is impossible that this mother attended multiple Canadian doctors all of whom were unable to diagnose a pregnancy.
Pregnancy is not that that difficult to diagnose.
My grandmother who had no medical training – none- successfully diagnosed hundreds of pregnancies and successfully delivered hundreds of babies, and she did not even go to standard 7.
I hope ac that you are not one of those people who will have people rub sh!t in your mouth and that in response you will say yum! yum!
Remember that believing others people lies is just as bad as telling lies yourself.
@simple simon. WTF there u go again trying to make ac the subject matter. Amm where in the article does it make mention of ac. dumb a.sss . i am just an outside observer having said yea or nay as to credibilty or reliabilty of the story. Btw what the hell should i care.
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