justice served

jam saw this on globalnation.inquirer.net. here is the link

this is so sad... kala ko sa pilipinas lng ito nangyayari... shempre kampante ung nanay dahil hello... ibang bansa kaya un... alam mo nmn mentalidad ntng mga pinoy... hay!.. magaling lang pala silang maglinis ng kalat nila.

"LONDON -- A new mother from the Philippines was unlawfully killed when an epidural drug was mistakenly fed into her arm via an intravenous drip, a jury at a British coroner's inquest into her death said Tuesday.

Mayra Cabrera, a 30-year-old theatre nurse, died soon after giving birth to a son at the Great Western Hospital where she worked in the town of Swindon, western England, on May 11, 2004.

Following the delivery, a potent epidural anesthetic, Bupivacaine, which if given at all should have gone into her spinal cord, was wrongly fed into a vein on her arm. She died of a heart attack but her son survived.

The jury of six women and three men took more than 17 hours to decide that gross negligence by the hospital, in particular the sub-standard storage of drugs in the maternity unit, led to her death.

"Mayra Cabrera was killed unlawfully," the jury foreman said, citing gross negligence.

Her husband, Arnel, was originally told she had died from an amniotic fluid embolism -- a rare condition in which fluid surrounding the developing fetus inside the mother enters her bloodstream and can cause a fatal shock.

But he learned a year later after instructing a lawyer that she had in fact died because the epidirual had been wrongly administered, allegedly by the midwife who came on duty just after the birth.

She denied having done so in evidence, claiming she thought the anesthetic was a saline solution or blood volume expander to boost blood pressure.

The hospital admitted liability but following a police investigation, no one was charged.

The month-long hearing at Trowbridge, near Swindon, was told there had been two other deaths at British hospitals in the last 10 years caused by the intravenous administration of Bupivacaine.

The inquest heard that storage of the drug at the hospital's delivery suites was "chaotic" and did not meet health service guidelines.

Arnel Cabrera -- who said his life was "ripped apart" by his wife's death -- is facing deportation from Britain with the couple's son, Zac, because as a widower his immigration status automatically changed.

He was granted permission to stay and work in Britain in 2003 on the basis that his wife, who arrived a year earlier, was also working here. He is pursuing a civil claim for damages against the hospital."