Keane Austin and her baby, shortly after being discharged from hospital.By Michael JordanDoctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital were forced to remove the uterus of a 17-year-old girl after she almost bled to death because the hospital failed to have its operating theatre ready for her to have a caesarean section.Keane Austin, of Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, suffered a ruptured uterus last week Monday after she went into labour and delivered a baby girl while waiting for about two hours in the operating theatre for her C-section.Kaieteur News understands that after delivering her baby, Austin was taken back to the Maternity Ward,Wholesale Jerseys China, since the staff were unaware of her life-threatening condition.A source said that fortunately, an alert nurse in the maternity ward sensed that something was amiss and had the patient sent back to the operating theatre.Austin underwent surgery the following day.Doctors were left with no other option than to have her uterus removed; rendering the teen, who has another child, incapable of having any more children.“If the nurse had not taken action she would have bled to death,Cheap Jerseys Authentic,” a hospital source told Kaieteur News.“It all comes down to that theatre (which is not ready round the clock for emergency maternity cases.) What we now have is a 17-year-old girl without a uterus.”Contacted last night,Andre Smith Jersey, the hospital’s Director of Medical Services Dr. Madan Rambarran told Kaieteur News he could not comment on a patient, even when it was pointed out that the patient had spoken to Kaieteur News.He also declined to respond to reports by hospital sources that the GPHC operating theatre in not available at all times for emergency maternity cases like Austin’s.Repeated attempts to reach Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy were unsuccessful.Keane Austin,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, who was discharged from the Maternity Ward yesterday, told Kaieteur News that she has a one-year-old son who was delivered via Caesarean section.The teen, who had not attended a clinic during her second pregnancy, said that she was taken to the GPHC last week Sunday after having what she thought were labour pains.However, she was told to return home and to have an ultrasound done.Austin said that the following night, she felt intense pains and a sister again took her back to the Maternity Ward.She said that this time, a doctor advised that she be taken to the operating theatre for her Caesarean section. But the teen alleged that she waited some two hours in the operating theatre when she began to experience labour pains.She said that a doctor assisted her in having a normal delivery.Austin said that she was taken back to the Maternity Ward, where she was “blacking out” and having trouble breathing.She has no recollection of being taken back to the operating theatre.The teen said that a nurse eventually broke the sad news to her.“A nurse say ‘you know we had to take out you womb.’”Austin and her sister claim that hospital officials have not explained to them why her uterus had to be removed.Kaieteur News was told that there were two other emergency maternity cases on the same night that the teen was admitted.Hospital sources said that one of them was a patient with an ectopic pregnancy,Cheap MLB Jerseys Authentic, (a high risk pregnancy in which the fetus implants outside the uterine cavity) had to wait almost four hours to be taken to the operating theatre.A third high-risk patient with the same symptoms that caused the death of Linden maternity patient, Inga Nieuenkirk,Cheap Jerseys From China, was forced to wait three hours before being taken for surgery.Some private doctors who have been assisting the GPHC in improving the maternal department are said to be peeved that GPHC officials have not responded to requests to have the operating theatre ready on a 24-hour basis for maternal emergencies such as Austin’s.According to the sources, this led to former Medical Council Chairman, Dr. Galton Roberts, who had come on board to improve the Maternal Department, quitting abruptly last week Tuesday.Dr. Roberts, a gynecologist/consultant with some 25 years’ experience in the field of obstetrics, had been working at the GPHC with the junior staff and assisting in re-organising the maternity department.A health official said that the physician, who has a private practice, had offered to close down part of his clinic so as to work at the GPHC full time.In a recent interview with Kaieteur News, Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy had expressed optimism that the measures would have led to an im