Bairo Pite Clinic - Community Health Care in East Timor - Sunday, 1 May 2011
Yesterday while in maternity attending the delivery of yet another mountain woman with severe mitral stenosis I heard the unmistakable wail of death from the isolation room some few meters away.
Baby and mom properly stabilized I immediately investigated and found the lifeless corpse of our 19 year old female patient severely stricken with systemic lupus erythematosis.
She had 24 hours earlier taken a turn for the worse, and had either aspirated or become less able to handle her respiratory secretions and was dependent on oxygen to keep her pulse oximetry reading above 90%. Ironically she was sustained by use of the new oxygen concentrator provided by Conoco-Phillips.
After comforting the despondent mother and sister I asked what had happened. They pointed to the cord leading from the shining new machine going to the wall socket, 'power outage'.
All I could do was walk away shaking my head in dismay.
Dr Dan Murphy is the head physician at Bairo Pite Clinic
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