8-year-old Srija Ghiraw was brought in dead last Monday at a GP clinic on Indira Gandhiweg in Suriname. “My baby Srija is no longer here,” says depressed mother Hafsa in conversation with Waterkant.Net.
According to the mother, her daughter fell ill last Monday after gym at school. The school management called the parents to pick her up. The mother picked her up and noticed she was a little limp. When she got home, she took a bath after an hour. She ate bread with sprinkles. Afterwards she went to sleep.
On Tuesday she went back to school normally, because she had a rehearsal. After school when the mother picked her up, Srija’s body was hot. She had a fever and her eyes were red. On Wednesday, her parents kept her home so she could rest. The child was fine all day. In the evening of Wednesday, however, the fever continued to rise.
The parents took their child to the doctor on Thursday. There she was given Paracetamol. She also had stomach flu and vomiting. The mother told the doctor that she had no appetite. The doctor indicated that she had a severe flu and that she had to drink a lot.
In the night from Thursday to Friday, the child spoke gibberish, which made the mother terribly panicked.
On the advice of another doctor, the mother had to keep her daughter in the shower for fifteen minutes so that the temperature would go down because of the fever. “I placed a chair under the shower and sat in the shower with my daughter. The temperature dropped and fluctuated between 38 and 39.
Saturday morning she became weak, after which the parents took the child to an infirmary. She was admitted there for observation. She was stung and the result was that she would have contracted dengue. The fever was now above 40 degrees. She was discharged after day care. She was given two packs of an IV, 1,000 grams of suppositories and medicines for diarrhea and vomiting.
The treating doctor told the parents that they had to go back to the hospital if things didn’t go well.
By Saturday evening the fever had subsided. Things went in the better direction on Sunday; she no longer had fever and vomiting, just a little diarrhea. Shrija had an appetite again. She liked watermelon.
But in the night from Sunday to Monday she suddenly complained of stomach pain. She had probably contracted a bladder infection, for which the GP prescribed amoxicillin for her. She no longer had pain in her lower abdomen after taking two tablets. The mother fed her bread.
Afterwards she had pain in her feet. The mother took her to the bedroom and massaged her legs. Meanwhile a neighbor arrived. The mother’s car was in the way. The mother was barely gone for 5 minutes to move the car. When she came back Shrija was breathing heavily and she didn’t move anymore.
The mother panicked and called her husband, but he was not available at the time. The girl reacted more from then on. To revive the child, the mother took her to the bathroom and showered with her. She did not respond to that either, after which the mother tried to resuscitate the child.
The woman called in the help of the neighbour, who drove with the mother in her car to a GP clinic so that they could get help quickly. However, when we arrived at the outpatient clinic, it turned out that Srija had already lost his life.
Srija’s parents have tried everything the doctors advised. Within a week, the girl died.
She was involved in an accident at a recreational resort on May 8 last year, in which she and her brother suffered an accident. A tree was uprooted and fell on the children. Both children were then hospitalized for a week and then discharged.
2023-07-18 20:51:36
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