Kaylan Dowdie
Battered teen Kaylan Dowdie continues to put up a fierce fight for her life after her heart stopped beating twice in 24 hours last week. But her mother, Veniesha Buckley, told
THE STAR that things are looking a bit better as Kaylan had a pacemaker inserted last Saturday. She, however, remains on a ventilator at the University Hospital of the West Indies. “The pacemaker will help to guard against the cardiac arrest. All now I can’t believe it that her heart stopped beating for 20 minutes last time. Last week her heart stopped twice in 24 hours. Her heart had stopped a total of seven times before but 20 minutes was the longest that it had ever happened. She is the strongest person I know,” she said.
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A week ago, we told the Government that in between planning for the logistical roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine, it had to engage in a robust campaign to convince Jamaicans of the efficacy and safety of the drug. For the epidemiologists and other health professionals preparing for the event are challenged, not only by the understandable fear many people have for a new product, but also an array of conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers with dubious claims about the safety of the vaccine and the motives behind its development.
That advice is worth repeating and must be taken to heart by the administration. A report by this newspaper on Monday made that clear. Even doctors and nurses, as well as non-medical frontline staff at health institutions, are sceptical about taking the vaccine when one becomes available to Jamaicans. That will be some time in the first quarter of next year.
The fear of never being called mommy is the only thing pestering 38-year-old Renae Richards. I contacted the adoption board in Jamaica but they said it s a long waiting list and they give preference to those in Jamaica. Overseas they said it would be best to do foster care first but because of COVID they can t do the natural home assessment to see if I m capable and I don t know when COVID will be over, she said. The way how me feel right now, I would want somebody from anywhere to be a surrogate and I will pay whatever their price is or even somebody who pregnant and is willing to give up their baby.