At the top of the newscast, we told you all about the ongoing investigation at the KHMH to find who or what is accountable for the 13 baby deaths in 20 days. But today the Medical Chief of Staff made a heartfelt plea on behalf of his institution when he said that Belizeans must go beyond the blame-gaming to find a staff that genuinely cares:…
Dr. Adrian Coye - Medical Chief of Staff, KHMH
"It is easy to see the wrong, it is easy to say, well 'they don't have this, they don't have that' and I am challenging you as a country to see the other side. If they don't have this, where can I fit in? How can I fix that? We see that this is a small unit; we're asked to do so much, four hundred and fifty, five hundred babies a year with a capacity that should be for ten babies, but we do twenty sometimes and I see and have seen miracles, I've seen excellent work and when all those successes are happening, no one says anything. But I just want to say, in defense, of all those I see work without praise, that I am proud to be working in such a great group."
And in a question that got mis-inserted into an earlier story, some of the families who've lost babies want to know if they'll be compensated – since at least seven lives were lost due to bacterial infections. The Chairman of the board made no commitment on compensation.
Reporter
"Aside from the apology to the families, are you in a position to offer them anything else?"
Chandra Nisbet-Cansino - Chairman, KHMH
"I'm not sure exactly what compensation, because it was basically a brief admission and discharge and the only thing that they would probably be given would be a hospital bill."
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