Autopsy today on baby found unresponsive at nursery
Senior Reporter
anna-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt
Even as businesses in the vicinity of the Future Leaders Childcare and Education Centre, Tunapuna Road, Tunapuna, conducted operations as normal yesterday, the doors to the nursery remained tightly locked.
The sudden closure followed one day after the death of seven-month-old Makia Ormsby on Monday.
Ormsby, who lived with his parents at Santa Rita Road, Lluengo Village, Maracas, St Joseph, was found unresponsive at the facility on Monday.
He had been attending the daycare for the past three months.
Reports indicate the principal caretaker and owner, 37, of Brazil, bathed and fed Ormsby around 4.30 pm, following which she put him to sleep on a bed in the living room.
It was reported that when the baby’s 25-year-old mother arrived around 5.22 pm to collect her child, the unresponsive infant was brought out and handed to her.
Raising an alarm immediately with nursery officials as she realised he was unresponsive, the panicked mother contacted both the police and Emergency Health Services (EHS) and they advised the owner on how to perform CPR on the infant.
Two EHS officers arrived a short while later and took over from the owner who had still been in the act of administering CPR to the infant who had again begun displaying signs of life.
Police officers from the Tunapuna Police Station, which is within walking distance of the nursery, arrived around 5.45 pm.
The infant along with his mother and other relatives were escorted to the Wendy Fitzwilliam Paediatric Hospital, Mt Hope, where he was treated.
Ormsby was pronounced dead around 6.45 pm.
An autopsy was scheduled to be performed yesterday but was postponed until today.
When Guardian Media went in search of Ormsby’s relatives at their home, only his 90-year-old great-grandfather was present.
Unable to say much about the circumstances that led to Ormsby’s passing, Lloyd Danzell described him as, “the laughter child.”
He said, “He wasn’t a bad child … he wasn’t sick … he was a joyful child.”
Danzell said he was a very loved baby and that when the news reached the family of his death, “Everybody … they all bawl down the place.”
Ormsby was the only child of his parents.
A close female relative whose child also attends the same daycare, yesterday said the family remained shell-shocked over the sudden death.
She too confirmed Ormsby was a smiling, happy baby who had just been learning to walk.
“He was a real happy, sweet baby … everybody had loved that little boy,” she wept.
Daycare officials said yesterday that they would be closed indefinitely.
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