HOW HEALTH AND POLICE SYSTEMS FAILED A ST MARY WOMAN
Special to the North Coast Times – C Hall
(Miss Andrea Cain)
A St Mary woman is dead five weeks after she was hit down in a parking lot in Port Maria, St Mary, following repeated failed attempts to have surgery on a broken leg.
Forty-eight-year-old Andrea Cain, an employee at the Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ), Pot Maria office, died Wednesday, January 10, after returning home from a visit to the hospital where, for a fourth time in the health care system, she was given another date to return regarding surgery and care.
Ms Cain of Harmony Hall, Highgate was hit down on December 5, 2023, by a taxi that ended up on her fallen body, breaking the bones in her right leg.
Police have not yet (up to Saturday,) taken a formal report of the incident and no arrest has been made.
Immediately after the crash, Ms Cain was taken to the Port Maria Hospital and after that transferred to the Annotto Bay Hospital, also in St Mary, where she spent five days before she was discharged, without surgery being done.
LIKE TORTURE
Her only child, 26-year-old university graduate student Shanique Powell, also called Beh Beh and KayAnn said it has been like torture. She provided care and assisted her mother in her painful and tortuous movements to hospital and lab appointments. “I became my mother’s leg.,” she said. She gave details of every effort by Miss Cain to get assistance and her own efforts to find out, without success what the police were doing regarding the crash and injury to her mother.
What was to be Ms Cain’s final hospital call came on Wednesday morning. They journeyed, with the help of a friend, from Highgate to St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital Wednesday morning, to attend the Orthopaedic clinic. Miss Powell describes to the North Coast Times a harrowing tale of lack of attention, difficulty understanding the systems, and poor communication. In the end, after five hours at the hospital, her mother was told some more tests were to be done. She was to return on January 17.
They are now preparing to bury her.
“Mommy was never the same after that accident,” said Ms Powell. “Everything with the [hospital ] system was stupidness…utter foolishness”
This is the video of the crash which injured Ms Cain, Dec. 5, 2024.
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