What a Gwaan Inna Cayman
Woi! The thing has blown up! Shelesa Woodstock said that she was told to go to Jamaica to have her baby because it would be cheaper and her insurance would only cover her, not her baby. Meanwhile people at the hospital have said that Shellesha Woodstock did not travel on the day that she was given the permission to fly, and that it was she who said she wanted to go to Jamaica to have her baby. Who is telling the truth?
People, its all over the airwaves, and now the Health Insurance Commission have come forward to say that all health insurance schemes offered in the Cayman Islands would cover both the mother and the baby! As such, they don’t understand how the woman could have been told that her insurance would NOT cover the child, and they have launched an investigation.
The Minister of Health, the Hon. Anthony Eden has given a statement that he will be launching an investigation to be conducted by impartial outside people and he promises to leave no stone unturned. Also, the Jamaican Consul, Robert Hamaty, has launched an investigation. Every where you turn, there is an investigation going on. Perhaps these people should work together. Still, with so many investigations going on, maybe we will get to the truth eventually, who knows… If I hear anything, I will let you know…
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With how investigations going, we’ll soon have investigations to find out about investigations.
HI MB,
Speculation, my favourite occupation! Here is my take, based on the information provided:
1. Jamaican woman in Cayman has health insurance and plans on having baby on the Island. It will cost her the co-payment (typically 20%), but only up to a known maximium, after which coverage is 100%. She knows what she is getting into and plans to deal with it.
2. She goes in to premature labour and gets emergency treatment at hospital. A nurse (quite possibly a fellow Jamaican), points out that the baby is only insured for the first thirty days after birth. If it comes prematurely, chances are it may need intensive care for a long time. If that goes beyond thirty days, either she will have to get family insurance (are the Insurance comany obliged to provide this? I doubt it.), or, she is liable for the bill. Family insurance would be at least $500 a month. Intensive care probably runs close to that per day. Either way she is ruined.
3. The advice is given by the well-meaning nurse “get on the AJ flight this afternoon, and you will be OK”
4. Nurse wrangles a certificate out of an overworked
doctor to say she is OK to fly.
5. She misses the flight.
6. She goes back to the hospital, and catches the flight the following morning, never seeing the doctor again.
7. Baby is born enroute and the scandal begins.
Moral of the story: The road to hell…..
Or: Never assume ill-intent when compassion is a reasonable alternative.
What a mess it all is.
I still say that she obviously not too smart. It’s probably her first child since she’s only 19 and the labour was premature . If I happened to be in her shoes I must confess that there was no way in hell I was leaving that hospital. They would have had to physically lift me up and throw me outside kicking and screaming.
Investigation = A politician’s pandering to an outraged public and media prior to going for drinks at the club.
@Fireflyky - You are probably correct. But, you can’t sell newspapers with that story and this is, after all, Cayman. <OUTRAGE>’Can you imagine!?!?!?’</OUTRAGE>
Hmph! I hope they get to the truth. It’s quite disturbing, especially since there’s a perception that Caymanians don’t really like the Jamaicans in them country.
Actually, I totally agree with you, Fireflyky. Say Wah, you’re probably correct too.
Comments reserved….Mi know seh Cayman funny and mi ‘ave mi fambily over there so mi nah seh nutten in case dem ban mi…cos yuh know seh Cayman will dweet…..but it’s a rass shame and I think that all that it is…is that they didn’t want some little f***ker being born over there and claiming Cayman status!
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@ Jamaican Girl 2007 : But see, thats most likely not the full story, because the baby, even if born here, would not be Caymanian. No baby born here is Caymanian if the parents aren’t Caymanian, so it really doesn’t matter if she had given birth to the baby here.
No, I think that the scenario put forward by Say Wah is far more likely to be what happened.
Scenario from Say Wah or Firefly MB?
FWIW, I am sure my reconstruction of events is wrong. My point is that we should not assume the worst interpretation of events until we know the facts.
@ Fireflyky : I know your suggestion is not gospel, but it sounds like it really could be.
Its all a load of bullsh*t. The fact of the matter is that a woman in labour was allowed to travel, with all parties concerned knowing that she was about to ‘pop’. This would NEVER have been allowed to happen in a First World country, and that’s why we, as black people cannot realise our full potential. We are our own worse ememy.
Childbirth is no joke, and your life can be at risk at anytime in the birthing process…What were they trying to do, KILL the GIRL and her child?! She was too young to know better, however the authority was too self absorbed and could not care any less.
Child birth is a beautiful thing, and the state facilitated making it all NASTY.
Thank God in all this, the baby seems to be fine.