Mom dies nine days after giving birth

A baby boy never got the chance to bond with his mother, Stacy-Ann Bissick, 35, as she died at the Spanish Town Hospital nine days after giving birth.

Bissick's mother, Monica Bryan, is accusing the hospital's medical staff of negligence.

"I want answers, and I don't want my daughter's case to slide under the carpet. I am waiting on an autopsy to be done, and I want the hospital to take responsibility for my daughter's death because if they had just paid her attention when she was telling them that she was in pain, she would be alive," she said.

Bissick, who lived on Grove Road in Linstead, St Catherine, reportedly had a normal pregnancy and delivered her son via C-Section on December 1. However, she began complaining of extreme pain shortly after birth.

"I visit her the day after she did the surgery, and she was complaining about feeling some sharp pains in her stomach. She keep calling out to the nurses and was telling them what she feeling, but they keep on ignoring her. They discharged her four days later on December 4," she said.

Bissick's pain did not subside, but Bryan said she managed to return to the hospital to collect her baby from the nursery two days after being discharged. But Bryan said her daughter's belly was unnaturally swollen and her condition worsened the following day. She could not walk and was perspiring profusely.

"We had to lift her up and take her to Linstead Hospital, who then rushed her to Spanish Town Hospital in an ambulance," she said.

"They said they had to do another operation on her because they saw something in her belly. Dem never tell her what dem see inna her belly, but they did the operation. Afterwards the doctor came and told me that she was in the recovery room on life support and that her faeces bag tear, and it was leaking inside of her," she said.

Bissick passed away a day after the operation on December 9. She only spent a little over 24 hours with her son.

"Stacy was a nice, humble girl. She was a very good mother and daughter and she loved life. Right now I am trying hard not to break down because I have to be strong for my grandson because he is without a mother right now," she said.

THE STAR reached out to Dwayne Francis, the CEO of the Spanish Town Hospital, for a comment but calls to his cellular phone went unanswered.