Days af­ter Guardian Me­dia re­port­ed ex­clu­sive­ly on the trag­ic death of Nelinne Pros­per, at­tor­ney Prakash Ra­mad­har has promised to as­sist her fam­i­ly in get­ting jus­tice.

Pros­per was on­ly 30 years old and worked at Massy Mo­tors when she went to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal in De­cem­ber 2019, to have her first ba­by.

Her moth­er Cheryl Montoute is con­vinced some­thing went wrong at the hos­pi­tal which re­sult­ed in Pros­per suf­fer­ing car­diac ar­rest and dy­ing.

The ba­by sur­vived.

But three years af­ter Pros­per’s death, Montoute said the hos­pi­tal au­thor­i­ties have not an­swered her ques­tions as to what caused a young, healthy moth­er to die.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, Ra­mad­har said he will do all that he can to bring jus­tice to the griev­ing fam­i­ly.

“We will do what we can to help her through this or­deal when her daugh­ter ex­pect­ing her first child died and her death was pre­ventable. Al­so, the treat­ment Cheryl got is an in­jus­tice of enor­mous pro­por­tions. Cheryl had to leave her job to look af­ter her daugh­ter’s ba­by. We are ho­n­oured to par­tic­i­pate in seek­ing jus­tice for this fam­i­ly,” Ra­mad­har said.

Al­so step­ping for­ward to as­sist was the for­mer med­ical di­rec­tor of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon who is a Spe­cial­ist Anaes­thetist and In­ten­sivist.

Dr Cha­toor­gon said he was in­ter­est­ed in see­ing Pros­per’s med­ical notes and lat­er tes­ti­fy­ing on her be­half as he had a pret­ty good idea of what caused Pros­per to die.

“The fail­ure of prop­er, ef­fec­tive and ef­fi­cient sys­tems at the pub­lic health­care in­sti­tu­tions is due to the fail­ure/re­fusal of the Min­is­ter to ap­point suit­able in­di­vid­u­als to the Boards of the RHAs and oth­er top po­si­tions of the RHAs,” he charged.

Dr Cha­toor­goon said the SWRHA had a du­ty to ex­plain to Montoute what re­al­ly tran­spired on the day Pros­per was tak­en to the op­er­at­ing the­atre in the ear­ly hours of the morn­ing for a Cae­sare­an Sec­tion.

“Though the ba­by sur­vived, Nelinne Prop­er died some­time af­ter the cae­sare­an sec­tion. And three years lat­er, the moth­er is yet to be told what re­al­ly tran­spired on that fate­ful day,” Dr Cha­toor­goon said.

He claimed, “The SWRHA has been hid­ing be­hind the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in its fail­ure to date to ex­plain to the ag­griev­ed what were the cir­cum­stances that led to the un­time­ly death of Nelinne Pros­per.”

Cha­toor­goon said Montoute is en­ti­tled to a de­tailed ex­pla­na­tion by the SWRHA about what hap­pened to her daugh­ter, fail­ing which she is en­ti­tled to seek le­gal re­dress.

“The Min­is­ter of Health needs to change most of the mem­bers of the SWRHA Board and his present CEO, fail­ing which the dis­tressed and dis­eased will con­tin­ue to face un­speak­able and hor­ren­dous tri­als and tribu­la­tions not on­ly at the SFGH but al­so in the Health Cen­ters and Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ties that come un­der the um­brel­la of the SWRHA,” Dr Cha­toor­goon added.

Mean­while, the SWRHA has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to Pros­per’s fam­i­ly and has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death.

The Au­thor­i­ty said it had arranged two meet­ings with Pros­per’s rel­a­tives.

In the mean­time, Montoute said she was thank­ful that both Dr Cha­toor­goon and at­tor­ney Ra­mad­har had heard her cries for help. She said de­spite get­ting pub­lic as­sis­tance it has been dif­fi­cult car­ing for the ba­by.

She wants those who may be ac­count­able for her daugh­ter’s death to be held li­able so that a sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tion does not hap­pen to some­one else in the fu­ture.