Read the full judgment text of CACV 000096/1990 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 9 November 1990.
1. On or about the 19th April 1985 the deceased, who was then aged 27 years, was admitted to the Obstetric Ward of the 2nd Defendant's hospital for the delivery of her second child. Following spontaneous birth, the deceased developed post-partum haemorrhage and went into shock in consequence of which she was transferred by ambulance from the 2nd Defendant's hospital to the Princess Margaret Hospital where she went into cardiac arrest and died on the same day.