Sascha Wil­son

Doc­tors have con­firmed that Princes Town res­i­dent Ijaz Han­iff, who died eight days af­ter tak­ing the COVID As­traZeneca vac­cine, suf­fered car­diac fail­ure due to a lack of suf­fi­cient blood and oxy­gen lead­ing to his heart.

The re­port, done by sur­geon Dr Am­miel Ar­ra, gave the cause of death as mul­ti-or­gan fail­ure, bi­lat­er­al limb and ab­dom­i­nal wall is­chaemia, aor­tic throm­bo­sis, di­a­betes mel­li­tus/is­chaemic heart dis­ease and con­ges­tive car­diac fail­ure.

Ac­cord­ing to the Na­tion­al Cen­ter for Biotech­nol­o­gy In­for­ma­tion (NCBI) in the Unit­ed States, ‘is­chaemia’ is de­fined as in­ad­e­quate blood sup­ply (cir­cu­la­tion) to a lo­cal area due to block­age of the blood ves­sels sup­ply­ing the area.

Is­chaemic heart dis­ease is the term giv­en to heart prob­lems caused by nar­rowed heart ar­ter­ies that sup­ply blood to the heart mus­cle.

The NCBI states that the nar­row­ing can be caused by a blood clot or by con­stric­tion of the blood ves­sel, but added that it is al­so caused by the build-up of plaque, called ath­er­o­scle­ro­sis.

Rel­a­tives had told the me­dia that when Han­iff was ad­mit­ted to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, the med­ical staff treat­ing him had told them he had a blood clot.

Han­iff was laid to rest yes­ter­day, eight days af­ter he took the COVID-19 vac­cine.

His sis­ter ac­cused the hos­pi­tal au­thor­i­ties of cov­er­ing up the truth.

In­sist­ing that it was com­pli­ca­tions from the vac­cine that caused his death, his el­dest sis­ter Nazi­rah Amin claimed her broth­er’s med­ical files had gone miss­ing.

“They cov­er­ing it up … They say they can’t find his files. Where the files dis­ap­pear? We don’t know where it dis­ap­pear? Be­cause they look like they get rid of it as soon he died. As soon as he died they get rid of it and then they call and tell us he died,” she claimed.

Speak­ing with re­porters fol­low­ing the fu­ner­al ser­vice at the house of mourn­ing at Re­alise Road, Princes Town, Amin said her broth­er was feel­ing well when he went to the Princes Town Health Fa­cil­i­ty to get the vac­cine.

“He was good, good be­fore. It is the vac­cine that make him get like that. In a mat­ter of a few days he died. He still young. He would have been 61 next month.”

Amin said she would not be tak­ing the vac­cine.

“I tell my­self I will not take the vac­cine. See­ing what hap­pened to him, how he suf­fer and how they deny­ing it and they don’t want to say it’s the vac­cine. What else make him sick? What else?”

She said the hos­pi­tal of­fi­cials would have been aware he had triple by­pass surgery.

“He was okay with it (by­pass) and as soon as he take the vac­cine, well.”

She be­lieves they should have done prop­er re­search be­fore giv­ing him the vac­cine. She re­called that at the hos­pi­tal, her broth­er made them touch his feet and they felt cold like ice.

“He showed us his bel­ly, the clot blood all over his leg and that was it.”

She had a mes­sage for the au­thor­i­ties, “They didn’t do the job prop­er­ly. They just giv­ing peo­ple vac­cine just like that. It’s not a right thing. I think they should know be­fore they give them it.”

Amin said her broth­er was a very nice, lov­ing man. He was the fa­ther of two adult chil­dren.

At the fu­ner­al, Imam Al­mudeen Ho­sein urged rel­a­tives and friends not to fret over his death.

“Why? Be­cause the time has reached for him to go. No one dies be­fore their ac­tu­al time. There is noth­ing like he die be­fore his time.” Han­iff, a re­tired pub­lic health in­spec­tor, com­plained of bel­ly pains two days af­ter he got the vac­cine.

Faleel Ali said his un­cle went to get his bel­ly rubbed.

But when it was time for his un­cle to get up he could not move. He was paral­ysed from his waist down and had de­vel­oped blood clots. Ali said doc­tors at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal even­tu­al­ly told rel­a­tives there was noth­ing more they could do for him.

The South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA), how­ev­er, has stat­ed that a pre­lim­i­nary clin­i­cal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­di­cat­ed that there was no ev­i­dence link­ing the pa­tient’s con­di­tion with the vac­cine.

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day about claims that Han­iff’s files were miss­ing, SWRHA’s cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tion’s man­ag­er Kevon Ger­vais said the au­thor­i­ty was re­serv­ing any fur­ther com­ment on this mat­ter.