Detroit resident Patricia Pouncey is awaiting a response from the health care system after her daughter, Nikita Washington, died in December from complications from a C-section. Washington was just 35 when she died, but left behind 12 children, who are now being raised by her mother.
Nikita Washington
“I just have a lot of questions right now,” Pouncey told CNN on Monday. “I always ask myself, ‘What happened?’
In December, Washington died alone at Harper University Hospital in Detroit while her husband was serving a prison sentence. On the night of December 22, she underwent a caesarean section and gave birth to a healthy baby boy, but the next day the family was informed that she had died from the procedure. The death certificate says she died of “postpartum hemorrhage” and “complications from multiple C-sections.”
“I haven’t spoken to anyone from the hospital and haven’t received anything from them. All I have is the death certificate,” her mother says. “If she died of causes natural, I want to know. “If one of the doctors made a mistake, I want to know too.”
Although Washington was young for years, she leaves behind 12 children, ranging in age from three months to 19 years old, and the family is understandably still grieving and coming to terms with a new reality.
“I’m going to fight to keep them together and keep them with me,” Pouncey said. “I’m just stuck right now. I have his 12 children with me now, so I have to buy a bigger house because my house is too small.”
Two of Washington’s children
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