Her family told us today that numerous tests were conducted on the young woman for TB and all came back negative. When a medical letter was requested from the hospital in order for Palacio to get medical treatment abroad, the family claims they were denied. Palacio died shortly after and her death certificate stated that the cause of death was Hodgkin's lymphoma - a type of lymphoma, which is a cancer originating from white blood cells. Today her family came together to demand her medical file to do their own investigation.

Lylette Barkley Waight - Grandmother of Flory Palacio
"I came in and I had concerns and questions even of her treatment while she was undergoing treatment. I was out of the country. So, when I came in, I decided I would come in and request a copy of her medical records. I did that on November 17th, a written request. At that point, I was told to come back in a week. When I came back, I was told that the report was being prepared and I said I did not request a report, I requested a copy of the medical files. I was sent upstairs. I went upstairs and I was told Dr. Coye was preparing the report, but he was busy and was unable to complete it. Again, I stated my case, that I did not request a report. I requested a copy of the medical files or the docket as they called it. That got turn around, I then got a called saying that Dr. Coye wanted to review the files with me. I came in. When I came in, it was Dr. Coye and the quality assurance person and I was being told that they don't normally do this. They don't normally give records to people. I listen very quietly and obediently and at that point I indicated to them that it is the family's legal right to get a copy of the medical records. I decided to go into war mode because I will not be pushed around any longer. This is our right to get and I will accept nothing less than a full copy."

"Now, when we had the review, the file was incomplete. We had from 1995 - July of 2014, her admission in September and her consequent death was nowhere in the file, nowhere in the docket. So, I want a complete copy of her docket and that's what I am here for."

Monica Bodden
"Her death certificate stated what was the cause of death?"

Lylette Barkley Waight
"Hodgkin's lymphoma."

Monica Bodden
"She was being treated at the KHMH for what?"

Lylette Barkley Waight
"Tuberculosis. Yes, tuberculosis."

Monica Bodden
"I understand that you were trying to get her out of the country for treatment and she was denied a letter from the KHMH for her medical visa?"

Lylette Barkley Waight
"Yes. We had a doctor in North Carolina, that was willing to take care of her free - pro bono - free. All we needed was for her to get letter stating her condition so she could have taken it to the embassy and get a visa. The mother was denied that letter because she was told that the child has tuberculosis and the embassy will not give her a visa. Now, there is nothing at all that says tuberculosis. There is no positive test results that says tuberculosis. And when somebody will look at me and tell me I was hoping it was TB - I don't want to hear that. We don't operate on hope. Not in the medical field. I will even go a little further and tell you, in the early stages when she was sent to the chest clinic for a treatment for TB, the chest clinic said we can't treat her for TB because we have nothing showing she has TB. They tested Flory again, they test Norilee, the sister, her Erneice, the sister, Nevhan, the brother and Juanita, the mother. Nobody had TB, but yet she was being treated for TB. And don't tell me TB can hide. Don't tell me that because that is illogical. But I'll tell you one thing; there is a lymphoma that masks itself like tuberculosis. I did that research. I found that out and I sent that information to Juanita. But because Juanita is a young lady who is a humble person and looks up to authority, when they tell her she doesn't know what she is talking about or ask if she thinks she is a doctor - all that did was shut that mother down."

When we last spoke to the family this evening, they still hadn't received anything. They plan to continue the protest tomorrow.